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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle 
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- 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
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
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
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
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
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- 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
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Know that joy is a choice, but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
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
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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