“It’s the crazy things that I do that make me insanely happy.”

“Do more of what makes your soul happy.”

“Outside influences can only make me happiER or happiEST but I, alone control my HAPPINESS!”

“You cannot expect a bird to be happy because you bought him a golden cage.”

“Do what is best for you and what is best for you is that which makes you happy.So do what makes you happy.Be with who makes you happy. Because in the end what matters mostis your happiness,both for you and also for the ones who love you.”

“Love fills my days with happiness, and my nights with dreams.”

“When you pick flowers, it is usually to make one person happy, but if you leave the flowers, then many people can see them, and then they, too, will be happy.”

“Be the person your dog thinks you are! – JW Stephens”

“Happiness makes me purr like a cat, and roar like a lion.”

“Move past what holds you back. Happiness lives on the other side of your fears.”

“I laid in darkness, in bed with the same song on repeat for hours. I wasn’t sad. I was happy because that’s what happiness was to me.”

“Now I am free,the lord of evermore hopes,amid kingdoms litby azure fires, absolutein self-remembered fortune”

“I was nineteen. You had your lips on my neck and whispers in my ear. You drove me crazy. But I mistook crazy for absolute happiness.”

“We have come to see pain as the antithesis of happiness. Yet without the experience of pain we would not appreciate the experience of happiness.”

“How we spend our days,” author Annie Dillard writes, is “how we spend our lives.” Rather than waiting until we’re happy to enjoy the small things, we should go and do the small things that make us happy. After a depressing divorce, a friend of mine made a list of things she enjoyed–listening to musicals, seeing her nieces and nephews, looking at art books, eating flan–and made a vow to do one thing on the list after work each day. As blogger Tim Urban describes it, happiness is the joy you find on hundreds of forgettable Wednesdays.”