“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”

“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”

“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in...”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking...”

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”