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.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

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.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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