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My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Happiness Choice
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles 
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
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Would you rather be right or happy?
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Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
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Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
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Seek not outside yourself.
- A Course in Miracles
There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
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Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
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
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
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
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
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Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
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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
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
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
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.
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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.
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Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
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
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Who can suffer while roses bloom
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
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
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
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My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
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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
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
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The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
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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.
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