Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.  ~Robert Brault~

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
~C.C. Scott~

Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.  ~Maurice Setter~

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.  ~Thomas Carlyle~

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure.  ~David Ambrose~

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.  ~Napoleon~

Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.  ~Ralph Marston~

There are two things to aim at in life:  first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
~Logan Pearsall Smith~

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.  ~Abraham Lincoln~

Happiness is a form of courage.  ~Holbrook Jackson~

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

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

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~Eric Hoffer~

Jumping for joy is good exercise.  ~Author Unknown~

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.  ~Author Unknown~

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.  ~William Saroyan~

Every thought is a seed.
If you plant crab apples,
don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
~Bill Meyer~

Life is great.
Don’t let circumstances and
society fool you into believing it’s not.
~Adabella Radici~

Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox~

The greatest discovery of my generation
is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitudes.
~William James~

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would come to be different.
~Katherine Mansfield~

Look at everything as though
you were seeing it either for
the first or last time.
~Betty Smith~

Optimist: someone who isn’t sure
whether life is a tragedy or a comedy
but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
~Robert Brault~

Very often a change of self is needed
more than a change of scene.
~Arthur Christopher Benson~

For every day that there is sunshine,
there will be days of rain,
it’s how we dance within them both
that shows our love and pain.
~Joey Tolbert~

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best out of the way things turn out.
~Art Linkletter~

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
~Arthur Rubinstein~

Expect nothing.  Live frugally on surprise.
~Alice Walker~

You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one.  ~Carrie Latet

In honor of “Happiness”, I would like to share some quotes about happiness for you to think about.

Happiness is an attitude.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or happy and strong.
The amount of work is the same.
~Francesca Reigler~

Misery is a communicable disease.
~Martha Graham~

A happy person is not a person
in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with
a certain set of attitudes.
~Hugh Downs~

Some people are always grumbling
because roses have thorns;
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~Alphonse Karr~

I never really look for anything.
What God throws my way comes.
I wake up in the morning and
whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
~Pearl Bailey~

Become a possibilitarian.
No matter how dark things seem to be
or actually are,
raise your sights and see possibilities -
always see them, for they’re always there.
~Norman Vincent Peale~

It isn’t our position but our disposition
which makes us happy.
~Author Unknown~

Turn your face to the sun
and the shadows fall behind you.
~Maori Proverb~

Some days there won’t be a song
in your heart.  Sing anyway.
~Emory Austin~

Unhappiness is best defined as
the difference between our talents
and our expectations.
~Edward de Bono~

The Constitution only guarantees
the American people the right
to pursue happiness.
You have to catch it yourself.
~Benjamin Franklin~

Happiness is never stopping
to think if you are.
~Palmer Sondreal~

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

If only we’d stop trying to be happy
we could have a pretty good time.
~Edith Wharton~

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

Those who can laugh without cause
have either found the true meaning
of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
~Norm Papernick~

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
~James Openheim~

Happiness often sneaks in through a door
you didn’t know you left open.
~John Barrymore~

People take different roads seeking
fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they’re not on your road
doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
~H. Jackson Browne~

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

There can be no happiness
if the things we believe in are
different from the things we do.
~Freya Stark~

Enjoy the little things,
for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
~Robert Brault~

In order to have great happiness
you have to have great pain and unhappiness
- otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
~Leslie Caron~

On the whole, the happiest people
seem to be those who have no particular
cause for being happy except that they are so.
~William R. Inge~

To be happy,
we must not be too concerned with others.
~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956~

Happiness is when what you think,
what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~Mahatma Gandhi~

But what is happiness
except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
~Albert Camus~

Happiness is not being pained in body
or troubled in mind.
~Thomas Jefferson~

We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements in life,
when all we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
~Charles Kingsley~

Some pursue happiness, others create it.
~Author Unknown~

Happiness is a conscious choice,
not an automatic response.
~Mildred Barthel~

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness,
not because they never found it,
but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
~William Feather~

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy,
they are the charming gardeners
who make our souls blossom.
~Marcel Proust~

For every minute you are angry,
you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~Author Unknown~