"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

--Joseph Addison

Art credit: The Lanterns by Charles Courtney Curran

Longfellow understood this business of tending to the 'temple' within:

Let us then labor for an inward stillness,
An inward stillness and an inward healing,
That perfect silence where the lips and heart
Are still, and we no longer entertain
Our own imperfect thought and vain opinions,
But God alone speaks in us, and we wait
In singleness of heart, that we may know
His will, and in the silence of our spirits,
That we may do His will, and do that only!

Art credit: Thoughtful Reader by Frantisek Dvorak

"Doing better does not always mean doing more."
--Sharon Eubank

Art credit: Blackberry Picking by James Clarke Hook

"Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must think of this now, while you are young. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness. You must furnish your mind with interesting thoughts and ideas. For an empty mind grows bored and cannot endure itself. An empty mind seeks pleasure as a substitute for happiness."
--William L. Phelps

Inside Out.

"The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts."
--Timothy Dwight

Art credit: A Lady Reading by the Lake by Peder Mork Monsted