“It is ridiculous to think that somebody else can make you happy or unhappy.”

“Laughing at somebody is just another way of dismissing them, but laughing with somebody is a bridge to understanding.” 

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The enlightened one, intent on jhana, should find delight in the forest, should practice jhana at the foot of a tree, attaining his own satisfaction.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

“Happiness is not having a lot. Happiness is giving a lot.”

“Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

May all beings have happy minds.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.” 

“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes – to love more, and be happy.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.