It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
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.
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.
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.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
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.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.