Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.