What does it take to be happy? Everyone finds happiness through different ways. Here are some thoughts on this very question.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
--Alice Meynell

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!
--Anne Frank

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
--Allan K. Chalmers

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
--Doris Lessing

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.
--Gertrude Stein

Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
--William Shakespeare

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
--Rabbi H. Schachtel

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
--Democritus

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
--John Templeton

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
--Aristotle