Happiness

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Guilaume Apollinaire

Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown