The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

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

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.