The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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.

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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

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

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

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.

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

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

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