I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds 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.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.
