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

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

We were together. I forget the rest.

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.

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

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

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

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

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

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

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

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

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

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

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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