Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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.

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

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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

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