A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

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

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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.

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

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

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

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

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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

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

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

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.