Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
