If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

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 something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

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

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

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.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

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

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.