Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

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

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

Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I will not be afraid because I understand... And understanding is happiness.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

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

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

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

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think