Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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