Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
--Norman Vincent Peale

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy
--Paramhansa Yogananda

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
--Anne Frank

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
--George Bernard Shaw

No one is happy all his life long.
--Euripides

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
--Dennis Wholey

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
--Benjamin Franklin

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
--Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

Love is - seeking to make another person happy.
--Unknown

We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own job.
--Henri Frederic Amiel

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
--Vernon Howard

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
--Tom Bodett

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
--H. L. Mencken

To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.
--Unknown

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
--Scottish Proverb

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash There is no goal better than this one: to know as you lie on your deathbed that you lived your true life, and you did whatever made you happy.
--Steve Chandler 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art
--Samuel Johnson

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
--Dale Carnegie

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
--Unknown  

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