Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again. ~ Florence Hendersond, USA Today, 9/24/04

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy. ~ Dennis Prager

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough/Without your woe. No path is wholly rough. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminting the fog that surrounds us. ~ Henri Matisse, IBD, 12/30/04

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ~ F.H. Bradley

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~ Freya Stark

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. ~ Alexandra Stoddard

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation—not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke. ~ Marianne Williamson

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller

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