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

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.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

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.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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