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Happiness depends upon ourselves. ...
by Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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Quotes by Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- 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
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- 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
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Happiness Quotes and Sayings
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
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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.
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
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
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- 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 is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick ourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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