The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Having only coarse food to eat, plain water to drink, and a bent arm for a pillow, one can still find happiness therein.

Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in even-day; Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.