Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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.
Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
