It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

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

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

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

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

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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

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.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

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