Happiness is like a butterfly, if you chase it, you'll never find it, but if you sit quietly it will come and land on you." -unknown

"I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death..." -Isak Dinesen

"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down." -Beverly Sills

"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic." -Rosalind Russell

"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity." -Germane Greer

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." -Katharine Hepurn

"Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it... " -Anne De Lenclos

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time." -Edith Wharton

"The mere sense of living is joy enough." Emily Dickinson

"One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way..." -Isabelle Eberhardt

"If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased." -advice to Katharine Hepurn from her mother

"...The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." -Martha Washington
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too." -Anne Frank

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy." -Eudora Welty

"...They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods..." -Edith Wharton

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." -Rita Mae Brown

"You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself." -Jane Seymour

"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love." -Adela Rogers St. Johns

"Happiness is not a place to travel, but a way of getting there." -unknown

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -unknown

"It's not easy finding happiness in ourselves and it's not possible to find it elsewhere." -Agnes Repplier

"Keep your face in the sunshine and you can't see the shadows." -unknown

"The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness." -unknown