The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

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

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

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

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.