Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.