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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

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

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

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.

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

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

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

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

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