Twelve thoughts of happiness for the twelve months ahead

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." - C. P. Snow

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

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

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." - Epictetus

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." - Hosea Ballou

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guilaume Apollinaire

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

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

"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

"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be." - Taisen Deshimaru

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

Asitha Jayawardena