Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman Cain

If you want to be happy, be. - Leo Tolstoy

Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different. – Stacey Charter

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

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. – Author Unknown

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. - E.L. Konigsburg

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson

photo from Paul Linton