You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of 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.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
