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

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 can exist only in acceptance.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

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

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

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

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

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

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

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

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

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

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

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

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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

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