Right Under Your Nose

 "A smile is happiness you’ll find 

right under your nose." 

– Tom Wilson

Happiness Shared

 “Happiness held is the seed; 

happiness shared is the flower.” 

- John Harrigan

Sweet Magnolia

“It’s up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now—and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we’ll be happy.” 

 ― Joanna Gaines

Print Available - 

Here

Posing Like An Angry Bird

 It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Always Think Happy Thoughts!

Artsy Version - HERE 

Bluebird of Happiness

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. 

~ Thomas Merton

5 Thoughts On Happiness

1.  For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. 

 ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.  People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

― Abraham Lincoln

3. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

 - Daphne du Maurier

4.  The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” 

 -  J.M. Barrie

5.  . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

 — Nikos Kazantzakis

Really - it's all about our attitudes, isn't it?  We need to make the choice to be happy - and then BE! 

A Happy Life

Remember this: 
very little is needed to make a happy life.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Butterflies make me happy :)

Prints and More Available - HERE 

 

Stop and Enjoy

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

A Glimpse Of Happiness

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

 ~ Richard Peck

Holding On To Happiness

…it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

~ Jane Austen

Prints of this image are available:
Here 

Eastern Towhee - Backyard Visitor

“Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.” 
 ― John Lubbock 

An Eastern Towhee visits my back yard in early Spring.

As Long As There Are Bluebirds

 As long as there are bluebirds, there will be miracles and a way to find happiness. 

-  Shirl Brunnel

Please Help Yourself To It

Happiness is available. 

Please help yourself to it. 

 — Thich Nhat Hanh

More of my Bluebirds - HERE 

Skipper Takes a Drink

An "up close" look at a Skipper taking a drink.

The happiest people don’t worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it. 

~Andrew Matthews

The Time To Be Happy Is Now

The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Ingersoll