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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

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

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

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.