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

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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

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

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

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.

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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