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.

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.

We were together. I forget the rest.

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

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

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.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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

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.

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

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

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.

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