These are some of the simple chords of melody that make a home harmonious and happy. Kindness, consideration, courtesy, care, laughter, unselfishness, prayer, thoughtfulness, doing things for each other, forgiving each other, sustaining each other, loving each other--these are notes that form a family symphony happily enjoyed and eternally remembered.

Marion D. Hanks

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Jim Carrey

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Doug Larson

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

He is happy according to what he is...

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Johann Pestalozzi

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

All safety, all righteousness, all happiness are on the Lord's side of the line.

George Albert Smith

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

The happy have whole days, 
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.

Colley Cibber

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Channing Pollock

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Gretta Brooker

If you only do what you know you can do -- you never do very much.

Tom Krause

Surely there is nothing men need more than the blessings of peace and happiness and hearts free from fear. And these are offered [to] all of us if we will but be partakers of them.

George Albert Smith

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Taisen Deshimaru

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is an inside job.

William Arthur Ward

To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Gretchen Rubin

I thought a lot about what today's quote should be in the midst of the 11th commemoration of the tragedy in New York City on this exact day. This one felt appropriate. I think we sometimes forget that to know happiness we need to know sadness and it is important to know what makes us feel bad. It is important to take time to reflect on those hard times, but more importantly it is important to reflect on them as a starting point for growth.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Philip Brooks

When we accept duties willingly and faithfully, we find happiness. Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end itself. Happiness comes from doing one's duty and knowing that his life is in harmony with God and His commandments.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Robert Brault

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles L. Morgan

To live in perpetual want of little things is a state, not indeed of torture, but of constant vexation.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Hermann Hesse

We must exercise ourselves in the things that bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Epicurus

Happiness is a strange commodity. It cannot be purchased with money, and yet it is bought with a price. It is not dependent upon houses, or lands, or flocks, or degrees, or position, or comforts; for many of the most unhappy people in all the world have these.

Spencer W. Kimball

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Helen Keller