True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
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.
