“Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.”

“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) English-American childrens' playwright and author

“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

“The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”

Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) garden designer, artist

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

Jane Austen book Emma

“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

“The garden is a raging sea,
The hurricane is snarling;
Oh, happy you and happy me!
Isn't the lightning darling?”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

“One must dare to be happy.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“To be happy--one must find one's bliss”

Gloria Vanderbilt (1924–2019) American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker