Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
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.
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.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
