"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

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
-- William Bennett

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

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

"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 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.

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

"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

"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.

"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

"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

"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

"'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

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...