The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
