Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

If you try to please everyone, you will please no one. It is impossible to lead your life for others’ happiness.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found.

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

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

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

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.