But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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.
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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.
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
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.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.