Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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

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.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

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.

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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

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.

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

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

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.