Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

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

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

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

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.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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

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

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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