Quotes on Happiness - Some of my Favourites

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
William Adams

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Alfred Adler

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
Akhenaton

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.
Ethel Perry Andrus

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Newton Anthony

Quotes on Happiness - Episode 1

"Happiness is
Surviving Your Birth"
- Oza Meilleur

I thought I'd start my quest for happiness with my very own selection of personal, homemade, Quotes on Happiness. I mean, why quote some long-gone dead person when you can quote yourself and be proud of it?! Just the process of looking over your shoulder to find the experiences in your past that have brought you happiness is enough to make you smile, so why not give it a try? Here goes...


I was born on August 16, 1950, at ten past nine in the morning. It was a Wednesday, and the sun shone bright outside the Verdun General Hospital. I didn't realize at that very moment how happy I was, because Doctor Hamel had just yanked me out of my mother's womb with his shiny, cold forceps, scaring the daylights out of me, and probably out of my mother too if she hadn't been knocked out from the gas and exhausted from the long ordeal.

All in all, it was a happy day indeed...I was alive!