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

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

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.

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

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

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.