Happiness properly estimates opportunity, and takes it

The happy have whole days, and those they use,

Th' unhappy have but hours, and these they lose.

-- John Dryden

Happiness is nothing more than the opposite of "anhap"

"Anhap", a Welsh word for misfortune.

Good fortune to you.

Happiness is saving $125 a month by giving up wine, and sleeping better too

Two people sharing cheap bottle daily now drink water and tea, saving $1,500 a year.

Happiness is being an adorable four, like Prince George of England

Happiness is Tim Tebow having fun playing baseball with the St. Lucie Mets, and suddenly hitting 90 points higher

Story here.

Happiness is a gift of home made orange marmalade from the south of France

For the recipe, see here.

Good look finding the Seville oranges, though, especially from right off the tree in your own backyard.

This stuff is to die for.

Happiness is Dwight Yoakam singing his 1995 "Near You"

Here.

Happiness is a kilo of sea salt from western Europe's largest river delta

Happiness is Lyle Lovett singing "Church"

Here.

Happiness is New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick pissing off the Taliban in the media

Wearing a t-shirt rockin' this image.

Stories here, here and here.

Happiness is the loyalty of Hachi

2009

Happiness is good huswifery (and husbandrie)

Good huswifery trieth

To rise with the cock;

Ill huswifery lyeth

Till nine of the clock.

-- Thomas Tusser, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie & Note, 1573 

Happiness is a barn quilt, conceived on a Sunday, finished by Wednesday

Her pencil drew whate'er her soul design'd,

And oft the happy draught surpass'd the image in her mind.

-- John Dryden (1631-1700)

Happiness is a house with a gas log fire place and a "dinning area"

I mean, where else are you going to raise a din unless you have a "dinning area", right?