The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

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

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

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.

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

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

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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