“The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale”

“You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy ”

“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness”

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness”