Happiness

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.   - Joseph Addison

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.   - Joseph Addison

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. - Henri Amriel

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.   

- Greg Anderson

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

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. - Lucille Ball

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

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.  -J.E. Buckrose

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead. 

-Albert Camus

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. -Willa Cather

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy. -Stuart Cloeve

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. 

-Democritus

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. -Alexander Dumas

To fill the hour -- that is happiness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

When good things happen, don't question them. Just smile and enjoy it. - Jamie