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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

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

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.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

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

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

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.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.