Happiness is..

Happiness is the result of being too busy to be miserable.


The roots of happiness grow deepest in the soul of service.


Happiness is feeling good about yourself.


Happiness is something that comes into our
lives through a door we don't remember leaving open.


The secret of happiness is to
count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.


Happiness is...
the smell of bread baking.


All our guests bring us happiness - -
some in coming, some in going.


The really happy man is the one
who can enjoy the scenery when he has to take a detour.


The secret of happy living is not to do what
you like but to like what you do.


Happiness is not the absence of conflict but
the ability to cope with it.


Happiness is like jam - you can't spread
even a little without getting some on yourself.


Happiness consists of activity. It's a
running stream, not a stagnant pool.


The thing that counts the most in the pursuit
of happiness is choosing the right traveling companion.


All who want happiness must be willing to share it.
Happiness is a positive cash flow.


Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.
In the pursuit of happiness,
the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.

R. H. Greenville


Happiness is...
The sight of a sleeping child.


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


Happiness...
is your first love.


Happiness...
is the first robin of spring.


Happiness is often where you least expect it.
Happiness increases the more you spread it around.


The grand essentials for happiness are
something to do, something to love and
something to hope for.
Chalmers


Happiness is being too sick to go to school,
but not too sick to watch television.


Some people cause happiness where they go
-- others, when.


The road to happiness is under construction.


Happiness is...
a perfect rose.


Happiness is...
sunshine after a shower.


Happiness is...
the child of loving parents.


Happiness is...
chocolate cake.


Happiness is...
puppies.


Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost


Happiness is the delicate balance between what one is and what one has.
F.H. Denison


Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep on feeling it.


The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it.
You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin


It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.
Happiness is a direction not a destination.


Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.


Happiness is...
hotdogs at the ballpark.


Happiness is...
the smile of a child.


Nowadays every man wants life, liberty,
and a new automobile in which to pursue happiness.


The surest path to happiness is in losing yourself in a cause greater than yourself.


The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will
have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer


For every minute you're angry,
you lose sixty seconds of happiness.


Happiness is...
sitting in front of a fireplace on a cold winter night.


He who forgets the language of gratitude can
never be on speaking terms with happiness.


Pursuing happiness would be a lot easier if
everybody slowed down a little.


Happiness consists of living each day as if it
were the first day of your honeymoon and
the last day of your vacation.


Happiness is home-brewed.


A small house will hold as much happiness as a big one.


Real happiness is going to a high school class reunion
and learning that the boy who was voted most likely to succeed --
didn't.


Happiness is a place somewhere between too much and too little.


A man has happiness in the palm of his
hands if he can fill his days with real work
and his nights with real rest.


Happiness is like the common cold -- it's catching.


True happiness may be saught, thought or
caught - but never bought.


Happiness is discovering that the slip of paper under your windshield
is just an advertisement.


The heart is happiest when it beats for others.


The happiest peolpe are those who are too
busy to notice whether they are happy or not.


Happiness is like potato salad -
when shared with others, it's a picnic.


Happiness is getting something you wanted
but didn't expect.


Happiness is learning that your daughter's
boyfriend has had his electric guitar
repossessed by the finance company.


You'll be happier if you'll give people a bit of
your heart rather than a piece of your mind.


Happiness adds and multiplies as we
divide it with others.


When happiness gets into your system, it is
bound to break out on your face.


Prudence keeps life safe,
but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson


Do something every day to make other
people happy, even if it's only
to leave them alone.


Some pursue happiness -
others create it.


Happiness is a thing to be
practiced, like a violin.
John Lubbock


Happiness is . . .
walking on the beach.


Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.


Happiness is hiring a baby-sitter
who is on a diet.


The happiest people are those who discover
that what they should be doing and what
they are doing are the same thing.


The miserable man is unhappy every day;
but the cheerful man enjoys a constant feast.


Happiness is pursuing something but not
catching it - except chasing
a bus on a rainy night.


Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash


Happiness is . . .
sleeping late.


Happiness is . . .
found money.


A happy life is one spent in learning,
earning and yearning.
Lillian Gish


The secret of a happy life
is to accept change gracefully.
James Stewart


Quotations from Happiness Walks on Busy Feet
Copyright 1992 by Great Quotations Publishing