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

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

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

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

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

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

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

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

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

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