Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

Happy is he who causes a scandal

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

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

We were together. I forget the rest.