Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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.

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.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

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

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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