Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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.

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

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.

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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