Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

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.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

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

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.