Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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

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.

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.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.