That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
Happiness to some elation Is to others mere stagnation.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt and wish to pass on to others is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
Happiness was not made to be boasted but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
Happiness... consists in giving and in serving others.
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Work and live to serve others to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.