Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.

A happy mind is a healthy mind, and a healthy mind is good for the body.

Happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

I just read a wonderful paper by Lenard on the generation of cathode rays by ultraviolet light. Under the influence of this beautiful piece, I am filled with such happiness and joy that I absolutely must share some of it with you.

What depressed me most is, of course, the misfortune of my poor parents who have not had a happy moment for so many years. What further hurts deeply is that as an adult man, I have to look on without being able to do anything.

I am happy at the thought that the worst worries are over for my parents.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

Happy girls are the prettiest.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.