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

If you really want to be happy, always try to do what’s right.
-- Bill Blackman

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

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
-- John Buchan

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

* Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. -- Carrie Chapman Catt

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

The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.
-- John V. Cheney

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)

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change. -- Jamie Lee Curtis

* Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.-- 14th Dalai Lama

 

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

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

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