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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
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I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
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If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
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.
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Who can suffer while roses bloom
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Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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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
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- 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
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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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
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
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The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
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Wear an Inner Smile.
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Dance with a Light Heart.
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Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
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There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
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
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
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- 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
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
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Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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