Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. —–Carl Jung
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
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
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. —- Marcel Pagno
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. —–Susan Polis Schutz
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
Happiness…it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.–Franklin D. Roosevelt
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. —-Washington Irving
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. —-Maya Angelou
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. —-Bette Davis
There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. —-Mother Teresa
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are. —–Goldie Hawn
It’s kind of scary sometimes, I’ve seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music. —-Michael T. Thomas