Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his sons, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the bed.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I often find myself questioning why my life's Journey had so many bumps in the road, so many peaks and valleys. What would I change if I could -  absolutely nothing. 

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

I like this simply because I can relate to it:

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!

Look to this Day!

For it is Life, the very Life of Life.

In its brief course lie all the 

Verities and Realities of your Existence.

The Bliss of Growth,

The Glory of Action,

The Splendor of Beauty;

For Yesterday is but a Dream,

And To-morrow is only a Vision;

But To-day well lived makes 

Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,

And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.

Look well therefore to this Day!

Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the presence of my family.  The ultimate Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city/state/country/Continent. LOL.

Happiness is like a sunset -- it is there for all to see, but most of us look the other way and lose it.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Try being nice to someone for no other reason than that you just want them to be Happy. Trust me the result will surprise you. That's right; Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Make your house you share with someone a home.