Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

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

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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

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.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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.

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

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

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

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

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

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

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

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

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