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.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Be kind whenever possible.It is always possible.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
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.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.