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

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

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

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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.

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

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

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

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

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

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.