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 a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.
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.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
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.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.