Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .