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

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

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

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

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

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

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