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.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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.
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.
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
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.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.