With all the depressing news we’ve been hearing on the radio and television of late, and this being the “season to be jolly,” I thought I would spread some uplifting quotes I have been collecting from the emails I receive from the Daily Happiness website. Don’t worry, be happy!

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. – Author unknown

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. – Happily Ever After

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie

If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more? – Roy T. Bennett

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. – Unknown

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. – Buddha

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. – Norm Papernick

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. – Palmer Sondreal

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu

Our happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle