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

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

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.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

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

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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.

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

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

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

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.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

We were together. I forget the rest.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.