Our happiness is greatest when we contribute most to the happiness of others.
~Harriet Shepard

Happiness can be defined in part as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
~ Chinese Proverb

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~Joseph Addison

Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. We can be happy and accept those things that at present we can't control, while we focus our efforts on the things we can. *
~Stephen Covey

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
~Stephen R. Covey

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
~Democritus

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
~Author unknown

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~Albert Schweitze

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.
~Buddha

HEALTH

To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~Buddha

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. *
~Buddha

HOPE

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. *
~Emil Brunner

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, For those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.
~Sydney Bremer

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
~Epicurus

Every sunset brings us peace, every sunrise brings us hope.
~Kem Lee Sun

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
~Thomas Jefferson

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.
~George Weinberg

HUMILITY

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. *
~Confucius

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
~Montaigne

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
~Ken Blanchard

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
~Benjamin Whichcote

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
~William Safire

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. *
~Author Unknown

HUMOR

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
~Max Eastman

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher