To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

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

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.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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

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

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

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.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

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

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

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

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

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

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

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.