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.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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.

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

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

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

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

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

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.

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

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

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

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

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.