Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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.
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
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.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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.