Giving brings happiness at every stage of its expression. --The Buddha (in The Generosity Paradox)

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. --Richard Bach (in The Gift That Matters)

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. --Richard Bach (in The Gift That Matters)

How do you say "thank you" for sunshine or health...for clear days or gentle rains...for happiness, joy or love? You say it by sharing what you have. You say it by making the world a better place in which to live. --Thomas D. Willhite (in Gratitude, Gifting and Grandpa)

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. --Storm Jameson (in Six Ways to Sustainable Happiness)

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. --William E. Gladstone (in 25 Choices that Lead to Happiness)

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. --Alfred Lord Tennyson (in Debunking the Myths of Happiness)

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human -- in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. --Michael Pollan (in Rituals for Wastelands)

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in How to Make Giving Feel Good)

"When you give of yourself, and genuinely care for others, the universe will provide that love, care and happiness for you too." --Anne-Marie Bauer (in Lessons In Living From A Cat Named Ali)

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in What Are The Secrets To A Happy Life? )

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. --Charles H. Spurgeon (in Material World: A Global Family Portrait)

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. --Thomas Jefferson (in How Fruit Auctions Are Helping Farmers Thrive)

Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. --John Stuart Mill (in What Does Happiness Conceal?)

The key to success, the key to happiness, is opening your mind and your heart to love. ---John Legend- (in All In On Love)

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Why The Capacity For Boredom Is A Good Thing)

The secret of happiness is, find something more important than you are dedicate your life to it. --Daniel Dennet (in Rethinking the Placebo Effect)

Happiness is a warm puppy. --Charles M. Schulz (in An Act of Dog: An Artist's Effort To Foster Compassion)

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. --Socrates (in The Dean Who Lives In A Dumpster)

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Is There A Right Way To Get Angry?)

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. --The 14th Dalai Lama (in 34 Images of Heart-Warming Humanity)

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. --Charles Spurgeon (in Which Countries Are The Happiest?)

Happiness is a choice that I can make no matter how grim circumstances might seem. The joy of being alive is always attainable at some level. --Patti Pansa (in No Regrets: Living With Dying)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ---Mahatma Gandhi- (in A Brief History of Happiness)

We all have a treasure inside us. That treasure is a spirit. That spirit is a beauty, peace, enjoyment: a happiness. My creativity is a kind of digging tool for searching out that treasure. --Zoshi (in Spirit Carver: A Conversation with Zoshi)

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. --Charles Spurgeon (in The Gift of Being Sincerely Enthusiastic)

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. --Jose Marti (in Why Free Money Day Makes You Richer)

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. --Immanuel Kant (in The Secrets to a Happy Life)

Happiness is an inside job. --William Arthur Ward (in The Surgeon General on Health Via Happiness)

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. --John Stuart Mill (in Does Trying To Be Happy Make Us Unhappy?)

Of all the things that human beings make and do for each other, it is the unquantifiable ones that contribute most to human happiness. --Charles Eisenstein (in The Man Who Quit Money)

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Free Tea and Company: Ten Years And Counting)

The best way to multiply happiness is to share it with others. --Unknown (in The World's Happiest Man on Altruism)

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. --Dalai Lama (in 5 Things Science Says Will Make You Happier)

Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
--Dacher Keltner (in What Science Taught Me About Gratitude, Compassion & Awe)

It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. --Brother David Steindl-Rast (in When Kids Say Thanks)

Life is as dear to a mute creature, as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. --Dalai Lama (in The Vet Who Is Saving India's Orphaned Animals)

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. --Lord Byron (in Meredith's Joy Jars)

Acts of kindness, even in the simplest ways, are what make our lives meaningful, bringing happiness to ourselves and others. --The Dalai Lama (in The Privilege of Sharing Abundance)

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. --Dalai Lama (in The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters)

Our happiness comes not as a goal, but as a byproduct of engaging in honesty with ourselves. --Susan David (in Breaking Free from the Tyranny of Positivity)

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness. --Dieter F. Uchtdorf (in Nipun Mehta on What It Means to Serve)

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness. --Dalai Lama (in Muhammad Yunus: Revolutionized Banking)

The worst approach to suffering is to try to make it go away, and the worst approach to happiness is to try to make it stay. --Max Ritvo (in Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship)

This is happiness...to be dissolved into something complete and great. --Willa Cather (in Gardening and the Secret of Happiness)

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. --Gilbert K. Chesterton (in The Gift of Humility)

Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.
--Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Gratitude Behind Bars)

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. --Mary Oliver (in A Tribute to Mary Oliver)

Until we define happiness for ourselves, clearly seeing the difference between excitement and joy, for example, our habits will likely not change. We will keep returning to the fruits of our desires --Judson Brewer (in A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit)

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
--Thomas Merton (in Lucky Man: Life Lessons from William Segal)