Beauty is the promise of happiness.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
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 you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
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.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
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.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
