Happiness

People tend to think of happiness as a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- - Unknown

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

You are not happy because you are well.  You are well because you are happy.
You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed.
You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to
correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working. 
- - Emmet Fox