This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
~ Charlie Brown

Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~ William Wordsworth, 1806

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Happiness is a form of courage.
~ Holbrook Jackson

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
~ Jean de La Bruyere

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
~ Frederick Keonig

Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.
~ Emily Logan Decens