“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.”

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

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

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

“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight...”

“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”

“One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve...”