Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

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

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.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

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.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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

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

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.