Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

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

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

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

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

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.

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

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

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

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

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.