We tend to forget that happiness

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 -

Happiness is like a butterfly

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  -

This is my depressed stance

This is my “depressed stance.”

When you’re depressed,

it makes a lot of difference how you stand.

The worst thing you can do is straighten up

and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better.

If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed,

you’ve got to stand like this.

- Charlie Brown -

There are two things to aim

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 -

Often people attempt to live

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards;

they try to have more things, or more money,

in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

The way it actually works is the reverse.

You must first be who you really are,

then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

- Margaret Young -

Well said Pooh

“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 -

Man is fond of counting

Man is fond of counting his troubles,

but he does not count his joys.

If he counted them up as he ought to,

he would see that every lot has enough happiness

provided for it.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky -

Happiness is always

Happiness is always a by-product.

It is probably a matter of temperament,

and for anything I know it may be glandular.

But it is not something that can be demanded from life,

and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about

it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand

of unhappiness.

- Robertson Davies -

Happiness is excitement

Happiness is excitement that

has found a settling down place.

But there is always a little corner that

keeps flapping around.

- E.L. Konigsburg -

Most people would rather

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable,

than risk being happy.

- Robert Anthony -