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"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money, it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow-men."

-- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (First Inaugural Speech, 1933)

"Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much."
-- William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918), Governor of Wisconsin, Publisher

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
-- Charles Kingsley (1819-1875, Author and Clergyman)

"We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."
-- Julie Cameron

"You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation."
-- Bette Davis (Oscar Award-Winning Actress)

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels."
--Bertolt Brecht, Dramatist and Poet

"I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy."
Anne Frank

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
-- Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. --Victor Hugo

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."
-- Pearl S. Buck, author

"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

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
-- Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (1828-1910)

"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
-- Og Mandino, author

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."
-- William H. Sheldon

"Happiness is making the most of what you have."
-- Rosamunde Pilcher

"Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are."
-- John B. Sheerin

"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Norman MacEwan

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
--Jim Rohn

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman ruler and philosopher

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

"If the things we believe in are different than the things we do, there can be no true happiness."
-- Dana Telford, co-author of The Integrity Advantage.

"Individual human happiness is directly proportional to the degree of responsibility we assume for our emotions."
-- W. Requadt

"The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience."
-- William Ogden

"It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness." --Earl Nightingale

"Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline."
-- W. L. Shirer

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
-- Rita Mae Brown

"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
-- Greg Anderson

"Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
-- Thomas Jefferson