~ Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. ~
~ Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ~
~ Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go ~
~ There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ~
~ To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ~
~ There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ~
~ To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. ~
~ Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you ~
~ The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~
~ Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~
~ There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~
~ Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ~