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A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- 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
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Angry and happy don't mix.
Flush out the angry,
and the happy has a place to put down roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- 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
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What are the proper grounds for joy?
Is it circumstance which will
determine the stature of my spirit?
Ah, no. It is choice. It is always a choice -
in the face of any event - for joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
I can see, and that is why I can be happy,
in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- 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
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- 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
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
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
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
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.
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
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
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
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
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- 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
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
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
I choose to feel supremely happy at this very moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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