No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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.
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.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
