Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
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.
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.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.