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

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

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.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

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

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

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

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

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

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

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.