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.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

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

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

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

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

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

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.

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