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

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

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

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

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

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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.

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