"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
-- Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180 AD)
"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing."
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180)
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
-- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves."
-- Ethel Perry Andrus (1884-1967)
Think happy and make it so