Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of 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.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
