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

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

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

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

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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.

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

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.

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

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

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

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Happy is he who causes a scandal