Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
We were together. I forget the rest.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
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.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.