You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.                                      —Lydia M. Child

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.   —Epictetus

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.            —Carl Jung

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.    —Henry Ward Beecher

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.             —Zig Ziglar

The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.    —Ben Franklin

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

—Samuel Levenson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.                                     —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

—Channing Pollock

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.      —Mark Twain

Joy of life seems to arise from a sense of being where one belongs... All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. —David Grayson

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

                                                                                     —Abraham Lincoln