Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

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

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 mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

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

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

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.

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

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

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

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