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.
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
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 the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
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.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Happy is he who causes a scandal
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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.
