Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

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

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.

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

We were together. I forget the rest.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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.

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