Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it. – Kofi Annan

"What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
-- George Asaf

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
-- Richard Bach.

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
-- Mildred Barthel.

 

"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor..." -- Henry Ward Beecher

The way to happiness -- keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give much.
-- Carol Borges

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.
-- Joan Borysenko

"What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
-- Richard Owen Cambridge.

"He who sings frightens away his ills."
-- Cervantes

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and rare.
-- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-- Chinese proverb

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

"The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiasticus. XXX. 22

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more of it remains." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -- Mohandas Gandhi

"The supreme happiness of live is the conviction that we are loved."
-- Victor Hugo.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The freedom and happiness of man... [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1810.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1789

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
-- Douglas Jerrold.

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -- Helen Keller

"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."
-- La Rochefoucauld.

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
-- Karl Marx

"To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power."
-- Vimalia McClure

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
-- Bernard Meltzer

When ambition ends, happiness begins. -- Thomas Merton

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will."
-- Dan Millman

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
-- John Stuart Mill

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-- Doris Mortman

"The thing that goes the farthest
towards making life worth while,
That costs the least, and does the most,
is just a pleasant smile.
-- Wilbur D. Nesbit

"A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end."
-- OVID (circa AD 8)

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

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
-- Agnes Repplier.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
-- Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." -- Bertrand Russell Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. -- Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
-- Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
-- Bertrand Russell

"No joy can equal the joy of serving others."
-- Sai Baba

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." -- Albert Schweitzer

 

"I wish you all the joy that you can wish."
-- William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice).

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
-- Dodie Smith

"Contentment is natural wealth."
-- Socrates (c 470- 399 BC)

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."
-- Thackeray.

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. -- Mark Twain

"It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."
-- Jean Webster (1876-1916)

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
-- George E. Woodberry (1855-1930)

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
-- Zeno of Elea (150-70 BC)

MISCELLANEOUS HAPPY THOUGHTS

• The most important thing that you wear is the expression on your face.
• It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown...
• Smiling is contagious...