Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember.

No one is happy all his life long.

It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.