Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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.

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

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.