"Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride. Nobody's gonna slow me down, oh no. I got to keep on moving."
- From the song 'Break My Stride' by Matthew Wilder

"I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success."
- Diego Val

"The greater part of happiness depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances."
- Martha Washington

"I'm always happy-go-lucky and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed."
- Terry Bradshaw

"I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world."
- Noel Gallagher

Song 'Don't Worry Be Happy' by Bobby McFerrin:

"You need to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance."
- Lavetta Sue Wegman

A "happy go lucky" person lives by the motto: Don't worry, Be happy.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/happy-go-lucky

Are some people happy by nature?

You are more likely to be happy if you are authentic and also do the work you were born to do.

"Often people attempt to live their lives backward; they try to have more things,  or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."
- Margaret Young

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From the song 'Who Knew' by #Pink:

When someone said,
Count your blessings now 'fore they're long gone,
I guess I just didn't know how,
I was all wrong.

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"If only we wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than we are."
- Charles-Louis de Second Baron decide Montesquieu

Keeping up with the Joneses (neighbors)?

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"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."
- Walter Savage Landor

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"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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What you see (how you perceive things around you) and what you think, which is related to seeing, determines your level of happiness.

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"All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads people to becoming unhappy."
- Dennis Prager

Song 'I Am Blessed' by Eternal:

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
- Frederick Koenig

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, get what you want and after that enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts

"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

#Wisdom:

Stop and smell the roses.
(Pay attention and enjoy the simple pleasures of life.)

Crossword puzzle on happiness:

Across:
2 To not lose. You are getting what you want and things are going your way.
3 Feelings of joy; Pleasing.
5 To be ________ in the community means you are admired and revered.
7 Happiness is a _____ __ ___. You make up your mind to be happy.

Down:
1 To accomplish a goal or something noteworthy. May be rewarded by awards or recognition.
4 Wealth or something of worth/value.
6 Many believe you are happy if you have lived well and ______ much.

Are you happy?

Song 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams:

https://www.flickr.com/#/photos/lessonsproject/14852697958/

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."
- Dale Carnegie

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
- Publilus Syrus

"Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness does seem to be a state of mind.

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind." 
- Thomas Jefferson

Theme for the week 1/18 - 1/24: #Happiness.