There is ...

There is
no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...


It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how hopeless the outlook;
how muddled the tangle;
how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

--By Emmet Fox

Sad As Happy

If you look at something as being scary,
It is scary,

If you look at someone as pretty,
They are pretty,

The trick is to look at sad,
as happy.

--By Joe Brown

Quotes on Happiness

“Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.”
Maurice Materlinck

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
Maxim Gorky

To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal."
Earl Nightingale

"Sharing time and talents can result in discoveries that bring happiness beyond measure."
Steve Brunkhorst, from 7 Gifts that Multiply Happiness

"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually."
Stephen Covey

“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle

"We have the ability to determine our happiness hour by hour and day by day, through our thoughts and actions. We make that choice every morning when we get out of bed."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Happiness Is Not The Absence of Problems

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it,
you will find it,
as the old woman did her lost spectacles,
safe on her own nose all the time.”
Josh Billings

"I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems."
Ray Kroc

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
George Bernard Shaw

"Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see a bird that had the blues?
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."
Dale Carnegie

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

"Don't worry, be happy."
Bobby McFerrin

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
Burton Hillis

"Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you."
Sharon Stone

“Happiness grows at our own firesides,
and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
Douglas Jerrold

"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Let us never know what old age is.
Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."
Ausonius

"Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance."
Jim Rohn

"It doesn't get any better than this."
Author Unknown

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
Marcus A. Antoninus

"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."
John D. Rockefeller

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Scottish Proverb

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
Leo Tolstoy

"Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product."
Henry Ford

"If you love what you do, then it is no longer work. The money you earn is secondary when you love your work. Money can never buy happiness, or peace of mind."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Love What You Do

"Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude."
Albert Einstein

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
Anne Frank

"Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be."
Brian Tracy

"A mind employed is always happy. This is the true secert, the grand recipe for felicity."
Thomas Jefferson

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

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
James Matthew Barrie

"Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit."
Norman Vincent Peale

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
J. Robert Oppenheimer

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Allan K. Chalmers

"Kids are happier, more relaxed, more creative and less stressed when scheduled activities are limited."
Jacquie McTaggart

"Happiness comes from within, not from without."
David DeNotaris

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."
Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness is not the absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them."
Jack Brown

"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."
Og Mandino

"Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are."
Yanni

"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
Richard Bach

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
Author Unknown, from The Road To Success is Always Under Construction

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
The Dalai Lama

"We should be more like children; they truly live in the moment! They don't need expensive things to make them happy; they don't use the phrase, "if only", or, "when I get this", or, "when I have more money". "
Catherine Pulsifer, from Today Is The Best Day

"Strive to be happy."
Max Ehrmann Desiderata

"Happiness depends upon your outlook on life."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Happy New Year

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
Albert Camus

"All happiness is in the mind."
English Proverb

"Did you know that there are gifts that will multiply your happiness when you give them away?"
Steve Brunkhorst, from 7 Gifts that Multiply Happiness

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."
James M. Barrie

"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want."
Elbert Hubbard

"Happiness is a state of mind, an attitude that money cannot buy. One must look for happiness within, rather than in material acquistions. Look in nature, look for the good in others."
M. K. Soni

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
American Proverb

"As you grew, we shared many happy times. As you leave, always take time to laugh every day."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from As You Grew

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."
Dale Carnegie

"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time."
Author Unknown, from Each Day Is A Gift

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within."
Horace Friess

"Happiness is the journey not the destination."
Author Unknown, from Achieve Your Dreams

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Albert Schweitzer

Promise Yourself

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can
disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to
every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel like there is
something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your
optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best,
and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on the
greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give
every living person you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, and too
strong for fear, and to happy to permit the
presence of trouble.

~~The Optimist Creed
~~From The Optimist International

Steps to Happiness

Everybody Knows,
You can't be all things to all people.
You can't do all things at once.
You can't do all things equally well.
You can't do all things better than everyone else.
Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's.

So,
You have to find out who you are, and be that.
You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others, because no one else is in the contest of "being you".

Then,
You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
You will have learned to live with your limitations.
You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.
And you'll be a most vital mortal.

Believe,
That you are a wonderful, unique person.
That you are a once-in all history event.
That it's more than a right, it's your duty, to be who you are.
That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
And you'll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.

by Author Unknown

Do Not Forget To Hope

Do not forget to hope
Though Time spins fleeting on
There is a place for all
To view the promised dawn
When Life's full test have run
Like rivers to the sea
Do not forget to hope
And happy be.

Do not forget to hope
For even when one's life
Seems burdened down with care
And melancholy strife
Remember how the gulls
Soar beautiful and free…
Do not forget to hope
And happy be.

Do not forget to hope
Nor rise above the gloom
All colours, as they say,
Are needed on Life's Loom,
And 'dark before the dawn'
Is truth that all may see…
Do not forget to hope
And happy be.

Do not forget to hope
For hope is there for all
A strength to draw upon
As, healing from each fall,
We rise with clearer sight
And, wiser, can agree …
"Do not forget to hope…
And happy be!"

By John McLeod © 1982

Each Day Is A Gift

The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.

Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.

As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. "I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

"Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room .... just wait."

"That doesn't have anything to do with it," she replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged, it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away, just for this time in my life."

She went on to explain, "Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing."

And with a smile, she said:
"Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less."

by Author Unknown

The Window

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour a day to drain the fluids from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed next to the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed would live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the outside world. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake, the man had said. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Lovers walked arm in arm amid flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man could not hear the band, he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Unexpectedly, an alien thought entered his head: Why should hehave all the pleasure of seeing everything while I never get to see anything? It didn't seem fair. As the thought fermented, the man felt ashamed at first. But as the days passed and he missed seeing more sights, his envy eroded into resentment and soon turned him sour. He began to brood and found himself unable to sleep. He should be by that window - and that thought now controlled his life.

Late one night, as he lay staring at the ceiling, the man by the window began to cough. He was choking on the fluid in his lungs. The other man watched in the dimly lit room as the struggling man by the window groped for the button to call for help. Listening from across the room, he never moved, never pushed his own button which would have brought the nurse running. In less than five minutes, the coughing and choking stopped, along with the sound of breathing. Now, there was only silence--deathly silence.

The following morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths. When she found the lifeless body of the man by the window, she was saddened and called the hospital attendant to take it away--no words, no fuss. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it all himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall.

Moral of the story:

The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we consciously choose to express. It is not a gift that gets delivered to our doorstep each morning, nor does it come through the window. And I am certain that our circumstances are just a small part of what makes us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never find lasting joy.

The pursuit of happiness is an inward journey. Our minds are like programs, awaiting the code that will determine behaviors; like bank vaults awaiting our deposits. If we regularly deposit positive, encouraging, and uplifting thoughts, if we continue to bite our lips just before we begin to grumble and complain, if we shoot down that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates, we will find that there is much to rejoice about.

By Unknown