If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month — get married.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.
Chinese proverb

”If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”

You cannot help someone else if you are in poverty yourself. So all that advocating be poor to be happy is a misnomer.

One can help in any situation if he knows the meaning of help. People are there, who help like that.

and who helps the helpers? Two people down on their luck, neither can help the other, nor can they help themselves. If it were possible there would never have been any poverty.

Platitudes do not fill hungry bellies. Cute quotes do not dig wells for fresh drinking water.

To give a person a hand up, you have to be strong enough to hold him.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton

Very little is needed to make life happy. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
–Marcus Aurelius

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing. Swami Vivekananda

It’s normal to have money & things money can buy, to be happy, but it’s important to check up once in a while & make sure that we haven’t lost the basics

One who leaves this world with no attachment with its objects & praying to be in HIS abode for ever will get freedom from cycle of birth & death.

People say I love you when they receive some gift on friendship day or any other day. HE has given so may gifts and keeps giving, how many say I LOVE U?