At your funeral or at your 90th birthday they're not going to say, "I am so grateful to him or her because he/she was happy." Living lovingly toward others will definitely have moments of happiness, but one might do well to understand that it is not the happy moments...
Life is so ironic. It takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.
True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared. There is no end to the sharing of love, &, therefore, the potential happiness of such love is without limit.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.
Don't wish me happiness. I don't expect to be happy all the time...It's gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
I've learned that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
Joy: the kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.