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

Exactly what brings happiness is a mystery for most people. Some try to find it by pursuing wealth, love, adventure and climbing the corporate ladder. Many who reach the goals that they've convinced themselves they need to reach to be happy, however, find themselves still searching for happiness. The conclusion that many heroes for a better world have discovered, is that helping others to be happy is the surest way to find happiness. -- Robert Alan

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