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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

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

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

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

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

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

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.