Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

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

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

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.