Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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

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

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

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.

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

We were together. I forget the rest.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

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