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The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme.
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful.
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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.
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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
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
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Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
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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.
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The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- 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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
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
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds 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
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
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- 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
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
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
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
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
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