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
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
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. – E.L. Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. – Norm Papernick
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. – A.A. Milne
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. – H. Jackson Brown
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. – Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. – Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
