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

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

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

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

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

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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

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

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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.

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

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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