Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Do not wait for a reason to be happy.

No one is happy all his life long.

The doors of happiness open outward.

It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.