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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

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

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.

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

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.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

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.

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

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

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.