Disapointment

While a relationship with a principled human being can certainly surpass the relationship with a pet, the fact that so many humans disappoint gives pets a potential edge they wouldn't otherwise have. - Michael Hurd

. Relationships with pets alone are not fulfilling.

Big Difference

There's a big difference between pleasure and happiness. - Lyle

Happiness is from within, pleasure is from outside.

Smooth Heart

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Keep your heart polished.

Actions Mean Something

Happiness is not a reward — it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment — it is a result. - Robert Green Ingersoll


Perhaps humanity's Third Law: For every action there is an outcome.

Unsatisfactory Idleness

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher


Idleness does not bring satisfaction.

Happiness First

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 be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. - Margaret Young


Happiness is lack of pretense.

Peaceful Mind

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. - Peter McWilliams


Be a pacifist when it comes to your mind.

Laughable

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. - Marie Osmond


Perspective.

Joy of Being Human

One of the joys we have in being humans is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case as it comes to us. We are not robots who are forced into behaviors by their programming. We see things; we think things; and we choose our course of action or beliefs appropriately. And as long as that remains true of us, we will live every day of our lives on one slippery slope or another. There is no reason to fear this. - Real Live Preacher


When your freedom to choose is in danger re-read the above.

Squander Yourself

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - William Cowper


In other words (though not as good); Go for it!

The Best of Everything

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. - Anonymous


Your happiness is under your control.

Worth a Try

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. - Dr. Howard Murphy

..... Give it a try the next time you're blue and comment on how it works.

Be Adventurous

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand....Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. - Jacqueline Cochran

..... Boredom is a state of mind, not circumstance.

Falderal

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. - Indira Gandhi

..... The joy comes from doing the work; the rest is just falderal.

Depressed or Sad?

In depression you care about nothing. In sadness you care about everything. - Gloria Steinem


A pretty good working definition of the difference.

Happy Travels

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

. Work on being happy.

Time For Happiness

The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun. - Unknown


There are those who would make you miserable - do you think it makes them happy?

Happy With or Without

If you're not happy without it, you'll never be happy with it. - John Candy


Simply put.

A Simple Pleasure

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Don't just take time; make time.

Tranquility

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld


And you will never convince them of it.