Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.