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“ Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”

—UNKNOWN

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“ The best feeling in the world is realizing that you’re perfectly happy without the thing you thought you needed.”

—MARXIE

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“ The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

—JAMES M. BARRIE

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“ Happiness is a state of activity.”

—ARISTOTLE

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“ To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

—ALBERT CAMUS

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“ We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

—FREDERICK KEONIG

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“ Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”

—DENNIS WAITLEY

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“ The only joy in the world is to begin.”

—CESARE PAVESE

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“ Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”

—WINNIE THE POOH

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“ Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”—MARTHE TROLY-CURTIN

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“ Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

—HERMAN CAIN

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“ What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

—CONFUCIUS

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“ When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

—HELLEN KELLER

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“ It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”

—SENECA

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“ It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

—L. M. MONTGOMERY

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“ Happiness is acceptance.”

—UNKNOWN

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“ This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper,

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which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

—DOUGLAS ADAMS

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“ Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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“ Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

—CONFUCIUS

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“ The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”—ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

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“ We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

—CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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“ Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS

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“ Happy he who learns to bear what he

cannot change.”—FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

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“ I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

—DOUGLAS ADAMS

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“ I wanted to live on top of the mountain, but I found that all the happiness and growth occured while climbing it.”

—ANDY ROONEY (MODIFIED)

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“ Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

—BENJAMIN DISRAELI

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“ No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

—AESOP

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“ Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”

—ROSE LANE

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“ The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

—ALBER ELLIS

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“ I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

—GROUCHO MARX

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“ Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”

—UNKNOWN

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“ That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”

—HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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“ It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”—F. SCOTT

FITZGERALD

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“ If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

—EPICURUS

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“ Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”

—JOHN HENRY JOWETT

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“ And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

—CONFUCIUS

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“ If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”

—PROVERB

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“ The grass is always greener where you water it.”

—UNKNOWN

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“ On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”

—ECKHART TOLLE

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“ Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

—MARCEL PROUST

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“ We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

—GEORGE BERNARD

SHAW

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“ Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its

joy.” —LEO BUSCAGLIA

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“ You don’t need to worry. You will, but you don’t have to.”

—UNKNOWN

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“ Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”

—MARY LOU RETTON

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“ Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

—JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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“ Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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“ Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”

—LEO TOLSTOY

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“ Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

—UNKNOWN

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“ If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”

—MORRIS WEST

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“ The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

—KAHLIL GIBRAN

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“ Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”

—MILTON ERICKSON

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“ You will never be happier than you can be in this exact moment. Chose happiness and nothing less.”

—GROWTH GUIDED

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“ For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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