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.

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

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

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

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

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

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

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

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

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.