"Make me happy, not suicidal"

A READER WRITES: "This blog is supposed to increase happiness? Now I might be missing something, but I get enough doom and gloom from the RTE News, Vincent Browne and Pat Kenny without you joining in......get back to basics........make me happy, not suicidal".

• If you are not happy here and now, as you read these words, then you never will be - Author Unknown

• I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves - Wittgenstein

• You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy - Eric Hoffer (Readers will note that U2 stole this idea for a line in one of their songs)

• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations - Bono (that's Edward de Bono, not Bono)

• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city - Burns

• It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis - Bonnano

• Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own - Heinlein

• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner - Colette

• Happiness is a form of courage - Holbrook Jackson

• One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers - O'Neill

• Happiness is a function of accepting what is - Werner Erhard

• It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely - Duhamel
  

• The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not - George Bernard Shaw

• I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen - Abd-El-Raham