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

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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

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.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

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

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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.

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