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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

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.

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.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.