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

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

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

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

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.