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

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

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.

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

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

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

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

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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.

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

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

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

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

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.