I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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 depends upon ourselves.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
