Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
by Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Sayings by Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
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I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness Sayings
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
Who can suffer while roses bloom
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- 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
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Wear an Inner Smile.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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