There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

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

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

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

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

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

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 in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.