Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.