When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

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

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.