If You Want To Be Happy, Be.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
~Edith Wharton

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place.
But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
~E.L. Konigsburg

What a wonderful life I've had!
I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
~Colette

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
~James Openheim

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think.
Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do,
there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
~A.A. Milne

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.
Poverty and wealth have both failed.
~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

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

Pleasure is spread through the earth.
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a form of courage.
~Holbrook Jackson

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

If You Want To Be Happy, Be.
~Leo Tolstoy

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
~Norm Papernick