Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

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.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

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.

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

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

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

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

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

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