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

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

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.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

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

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

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