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

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: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.