Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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

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.

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

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

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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