.:: Happiness ::.

If you want to be happy, be. 

 ~Leo Tolstoy

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

~ Mildred Barthel

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." 

~ Marcus Aurelius

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

 ~Aristotle

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. 

 ~Palmer Sondreal

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. 

 ~Robert Anthony

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

 ~ Countess of Blessington

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." 

~ Dave Gardner

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so."

 ~ William Ralph Inge

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness." 

~ Thomas Jefferson

"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."

 ~ William James

"We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have--and not worrying about what we don't have." 

~ Ken Keyes, Jr.

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." 

~ Abraham Lincoln

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything." 

~ Norman Lear

"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness." 

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do." 

~ Wilfred A. Peterson

"My Happiness is not the means to my end.  It is the end." 

~ Ayn Rand

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." 

~ Francesca Reigler, artist

"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition." 

~ Arthur Rubinstein

"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

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am doing right?"

 ~ Charles M Schulz

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

 ~ George Santayana

"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." 

~ Talmud

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  ~Mark Twain

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.  

~Edith Wharton

What a wonderful life I've had!  I only wish I'd realized it sooner.  

~Colette

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  

~James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.  

~John Barrymore