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Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. |
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James Allen |
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As a Man Thinketh by James Allen |
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thought optimism pessimism happiness |
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...the supply of misery, pain, and suffering is unlimited. But so is the supply of pleasure, contentment, and fufillment. It is we who do the rationing.
Ration no more! Capture wellness this instant! This instant is all there is. Live it! |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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wellness happiness pleasure pain fulfillment life contentment |
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Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it. |
| Author: |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
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The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
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happiness vision perception fulfillment |
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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happiness desire sacrifice delayed gratification vision goal |
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. |
| Author: |
Leo Tolstoy |
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The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
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focus perception materialism choice possessions happiness |
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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. |
| Author: |
Morihei Ueshiba |
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The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba |
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simplicity power status peace joy happiness life success growth heaven money |
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I have a need inside me, of a certain joy, you see? An expression of joy. I feel it. I suppose that I am glad to be alive, glad to have a man whom I love and a life that I enjoy and the things which I work on which sometimes make my spirit sing. And I hope everybody has that feeling inside. I am grateful that I have a spirit inside me which often sings. |
| Author: |
Nina Holton, sculptor |
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
| Keywords: |
joy life living happiness work gratitude spirit |
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Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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life sorrow sadness joy happiness failure loss living |
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The measure of our future success and happiness will not be the quality of the cards we are dealt by unseen hands, but the poise and wisdom with which we play them.``
Choose to play each hand to the best of your ability without wasting the time or energy it takes to complain about either the cards or the dealer or the often unfair rules of the game.``
Play both the winning and the losing hands as best you can, then fold the cards and ante up for the next deal! |
| Author: |
Joe Klock |
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Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon by Joe Klock |
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success future happiness life poise wisdom complaints time energy rules attitude perseverance |
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. |
| Author: |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
| Keywords: |
joy happiness giving sharing selfishness selflessness friendship love relationships |
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Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. |
| Author: |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
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hope faith habit happiness joy attitude |
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. |
| Author: |
Norman Vincent Peale |
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Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
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happiness attitude habit joy life |
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. |
| Author: |
Aristotle |
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The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life |
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goals objectives success happiness action planning priorities |
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Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts (judgement, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue). |
| Author: |
Peter McWilliams |
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You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought by Peter McWilliams |
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Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend not upond these, but on the direction in which you are tending. |
| Author: |
Samuel Butler |
| Source: |
The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
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happiness joy misery sadness attitude growth progress vision |
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. |
| Author: |
Jean Houston |
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The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron |
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laughter joy happiness creativity vision |
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Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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peace serenity greed ambition anger envy pride discontent unhappiness |
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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. |
| Author: |
Horace |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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life living present future procrastination joy happiness fulfillment |
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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. |
| Author: |
Horace |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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joy living present future fulfillment happiness action |
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment. |
| Author: |
Horace |
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations |
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humor perspective fun living happiness balance |
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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happiness sharing joy friendship love relationships attitude |
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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. |
| Author: |
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., from the essay "Windows of the Soul" |
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Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield |
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self-nurture soul joy happiness peace contentment serenity |
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You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences...To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. |
| Author: |
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., from the essay "Windows of the Soul" |
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Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield |
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self-nurture life soul work happiness balance self-esteem growth change |
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. |
| Author: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Franklin Day Planner, November 19, 1994 |
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character attitude happiness joy cheerfulness |
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
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Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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happiness family relationships parenting children ambition success priorities balance |
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That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
| Keywords: |
life happiness joy self-esteem self-awareness self-confidence growth |
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It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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contemplation study education learning knowledge misery happiness joy attitude focus success |
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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happiness life success work achievement progress growth |
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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time money happiness |
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We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it is possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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happiness joy life envy hope |
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The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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present desire imagination vision goal joy happiness memories memory future |
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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life opportunity vision good action happiness success |
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It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
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The Forbes Book of Business Quotations |
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happiness past present memories memory |
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Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
``Improve each moment as it flies!
``Life's a short summer, man a flower;
``He dies--alas! how soon he dies! |
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Samuel Johnson from "Winter, An Ode" |
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
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time present opportunity life joy happiness |
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Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased. |
| Author: |
Samuel Johnson |
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living! |
| Author: |
Amanda Bradley |
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Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World by Adair Lara |
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The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. |
| Author: |
Francoise de Motteville |
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Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World by Adair Lara |
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happiness joy work |
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It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things. |
| Author: |
Julia Child |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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celebration joy happiness family friends relationships food |
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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life. |
| Author: |
Bernie S. Siegel, MD |
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The Book of Positive Quotations compiled by John Cook |
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stress anxiety worry happiness peace fulfillment |
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That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express. |
| Author: |
Francis Bacon |
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations |
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beauty appearances soul character peace happiness joy |
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It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before--human experience--is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know. |
| Author: |
Ray Lyman Wilbur |
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Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture. |
| Author: |
Ovid |
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Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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How much better it is to weep at joy than to joy at weeping. |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare (The Comedy of Errors) |
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
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joy happiness attitude |
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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) |
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
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I count myself in nothing else so happy
``As in a soul remembering my good friends. |
| Author: |
William Shakespeare (King Richard II) |
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
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happiness friendship relationships balance joy |
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You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. |
| Author: |
MacRina Wiederkehr |
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A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary by MacRina Wiederkehr |
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joy sorrow pain suffering love beauty dreams routine living meaning wisdom daily events happiness problems struggles difficulties mistakes sadness goals hopes spirituality |
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Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. |
| Author: |
William Bennett |
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The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook |
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happiness joy enjoyment work effort meaning purpose |
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
| Author: |
Abraham Lincoln |
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Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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...true happiness stems from a quality within ourselves, from a way of thinking of life. Of all the millions of words written on happiness, this is the oldest and most enduring truth. If the principles of contentment are not within us, no material success, no pleasures or possessions, can make us happy. |
| Author: |
Lillian Eichler Watson |
| Source: |
Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor) |
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happiness attitude depression contentment materialism sadness success joy happy focus money possessions indulgence balance character |
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Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. |
| Author: |
Marcus Aurelius |
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Lillian Eichler Watson |
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I like to work out. I like to play ball. I like to spend time with my friends. I like to make myself better every day. I like to try to learn. It doesn't take money to do that. |
| Author: |
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns player |
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"Stevie Wonder" by Brian Bujdos, an article in the April 1998 issue of FastBreak magazine |
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happiness materialism focus friendship growth learning change self-improvement priorities |
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The great pursuit of happiness..is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. |
| Author: |
Robert Henri |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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happiness meaning life success |
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Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? |
| Author: |
Henry James |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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life live happiness action fulfillment success |
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Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth." |
| Author: |
Anton Chekhov |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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happiness meaning life priorities |
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To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy...is the true aim and end to life. |
| Author: |
Llewelyn Powers |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
| Keywords: |
happiness fulfillment life living success goal |
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life. |
| Author: |
Henry David Thoreau |
| Source: |
The Book of Positive Quotations |
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life happiness acceptance blame complain fulfillment success |
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation? |
| Author: |
Jane Austen |
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Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner. |
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The best position is one of noninterference with another's peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not interfere by violence with yours. |
| Author: |
William James |
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Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren |
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. |
| Author: |
Henry David Thoreau |
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