Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

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

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.