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Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
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Life is empty and meaningless
because life is empty and meaningless.
- Werner Erhard
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
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At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
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
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Create your future from your future not your past.
- Werner Erhard
Begin building the future through
"conversation for possibility."
- Werner Erhard
You are perfect exactly the way you are.
- Werner Erhard
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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 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
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- 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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
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 greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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
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.
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
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
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
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
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
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
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
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
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
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
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
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
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
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
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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