Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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.
