Happiness is Free...

Some Thoughts on Happiness...

• Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young

• Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony

• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine

• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig

• Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin

• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher

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

• In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron

• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

• Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown

• If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe

• Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel

• The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown