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.
If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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.
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 person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Happy is he who causes a scandal
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.