Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

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.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

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.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.