Happiness.

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

“To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.”

“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

“For beyond the satisfaction of some real and natural necessities, all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties.”

“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”

“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”

“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?”

“For the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind, however much our youth may deceive us on this point; and the pleasures of the mind turn chiefly on the powers of the mind.”

“The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man.”

“Never tell your problems to anyone, 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”

“Happiness cannot come from without, it must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”