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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

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

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

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

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

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

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.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

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

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.