Americans aren't happy, they're just trained to look as if they are. It's fake orgasm on a grand scale, and we're almost deafened by the din - The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/09/barbara-ehrenreich-smile-lu…
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be. Abraham Lincoln
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes - Hugh Downs
A feeling of happiness is the best injection you can give to your being. It pervades all your systems, all your cells, flows and mechanisms. Happiness is the best remedy and stimulant for your being. Take lots of vitamin H: happiness - Robert Muller
... which we can nearly all grow and use more imaginatively, whether we have a park or a window box.
As Jekka McVicar and her team remind us, happy by-products of a love of herbs can include bumblebees buzzing busily on the lavender.
The world database of happiness provides a continuous register of scientific research on people's subjective appreciation of life.
Measuring societal well-being is complicated by widely varying definitions of the good life across cultures.
Authentic experiences, remembered in context, are more powerful than "happiness in a can".