Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi · Shared everywhere under Gandhi's name, but no speech or writing of his with these words has been found.

Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi · Written in his weekly Young India in 1920, in a passage on love as the force we see between parent and child and must learn to use toward all that lives.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Mahatma Gandhi · From the autobiography, in the chapter on his early married life; standard English translation of the Gujarati original.

More Happiness Quotes

I'm the king of the world!

Jack Dawson · Leonardo DiCaprio's artist in Titanic (1997) · Jack whooping to his friend Fabrizio from the bow of the ship as it leaves port; James Cameron repeated the line on stage when he won the Best Director Oscar in 1998.

You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

Albert Schweitzer · From his philosophy of civilization, written in Africa during the First World War; his answer to anyone who thinks happiness is for keeping.

Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Often credited to Nathaniel Hawthorne · Hawthorne never wrote it, and neither did Thoreau, who also gets the credit; the earliest version is an anonymous 1848 newspaper piece in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, signed only "L."