Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Independence is happiness.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

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

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

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

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

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

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

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.