Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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 doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude
I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.