Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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

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.

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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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

God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.

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

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

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

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.

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