Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

He who sings frightens away his ills.
Cervantes

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
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.

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

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation
Bette Davis

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Ziggy

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness
Countess of Blessing

Realize that true happiness lies within you.
Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
Reach out, Share, Smile, Hug.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others
without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino

By all means marry: If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus

Happiness is to see the world in a grain of sand, and Heaven in a wild flower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in a single hour
William Blake

For every minute you're angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness