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My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Happiness Choice
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles 
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Seek not outside yourself.
- A Course in Miracles
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
- A Course In Miracles
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
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If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
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
Who can suffer while roses bloom
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Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
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Simple living is the way to happy living.
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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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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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.
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A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 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
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
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
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
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The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
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The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
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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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Dance with a Light Heart.
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Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
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
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Wear an Inner Smile.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
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Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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