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Happiness depends upon ourselves. ...
by Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle PHOTO

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

 

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

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.

Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

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

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

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

Who can suffer while roses bloom
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie

If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- 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

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi

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 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

Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

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

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank

The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous

The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

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

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

Wear an Inner Smile.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dance with a Light Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- 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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

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

Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen

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

Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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