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

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

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

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.

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

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

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