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

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.

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

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

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

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

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.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

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

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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