Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

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

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

We were together. I forget the rest.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

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

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

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

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

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

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.