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

"Some of us might find happiness if
we quit struggling so desperately for it."
-William Feather

"It is the paradox of life that the
way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
The very first condition of lasting happiness
is that a life should be full of purpose,
aiming at something outside self."
-Hugo Black

"The truth is that all of us attain
the greatest success and happiness possible
in this life whenever we use our native
capacities to their greatest extent."
-Smiley Blanton

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp, but which,
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Now and then it's good to pause
in our pursuit of happiness
and just be happy."
-Guillaume Apollinaire

"Now and then it's good to pause
in our pursuit of happiness
and just be happy."
-Guillaume Apollinaire

"I accept life unconditionally.
Life holds so much--
so much to be happy about always.
Most people ask for happiness on condition.
Happiness can be felt only
if you don't set conditions."
-Artur Rubinstein

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized,
it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
-Daphne DuMaurier

"It is not how much we have,
but how much we enjoy,
that makes happiness."
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure;
where your treasure, there your heart;
where your heart, there your happiness."
-St. Augustine

"My creed is this:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so."
-Robert G. Ingersoll

"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage
and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."
-Logan Pearsall Smith

"Happiness is a sunbeam
which may pass through a thousand bosoms
without losing a particle of its original ray;
nay, when it strikes a kindred heart,
like the converged light upon a mirror,
it reflects itself with redoubled brightness.
It is not perfected till it is shared."
-Jane Porter