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

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

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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

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

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.