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 in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
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.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.