“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”  ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth. 
- Rumi

Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light. -Norman Vincent Peale

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

- Hafiz

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."
 – Mahatma Gandhi

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes other feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
-Dalai Lama 

Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. They you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
-Alan Cohen 

"May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy." -Buddha 

"Don't rely on someone else for your happiness
and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for 
that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no 
one else will be able to make that happen. 

Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as you see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different."

-Stacey Charter

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

- Denis Waitley

May brooks and trees and singing hills

Join in the chorus too,

And every gentle wind that blows

Send happiness to you.

~Irish Blessing

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient" -Aristotle

Joy is all around. I'm soaking it up and letting it permeate my heart and life. I find I am happiest when I'm focusing on joyful things. -Me, July 2010

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

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."  -H. Jackson Browne