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Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
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Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase
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
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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.
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
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
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
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 life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
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 supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
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
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
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
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- 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.
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- 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
Angry and happy don't mix.
Flush out the angry,
and the happy has a place to put down roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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