Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

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

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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

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

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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.