To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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.

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

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

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

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

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

We were together. I forget the rest.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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