"The secret of happiness lies in the taking of genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
-- William Morris

"A happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
-- Hugh Downs

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

-- Eric Hoffer

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"The simple truth is nothing external will make you happy."

-- Stephen M. Pollan

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

-- Abe Lincoln

"Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent not an object."

-- Hermann Hesse

"All we need to make us really happy is something to be excited about."
-- Charles Kingsley

"Very little is needed to make a happy life."

-- Marcus Aurelius

"You can learn to hold your own happiness lightly by remembering that you are its source and that there is an infinite supply."

-- Martha Beck

"In truth, the best way to experience long-term happiness is to experience perpetual short-term happiness."

-- Ernie J. Zelinski

"One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with him."

-- Goethe

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

-- Ingrid Bergman

"If you want to be happy, be."

-- Thoreau

"Do not try to make things happen the way you want, but want what happens to happen the way it happens, and you will be happy."

-- Epictetus

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to happiness."

-- Bertrand Russell

"If our nature is permitted to guide our life, we grow healthy, fruitful and happy."

-- Abraham Maslow

"Happiness is a present attitude not a future condition."

-- Hugh Prather

"Romance is not the secret of happiness, harmony is."

-- Garrison Keillor