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The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Music expresses that which can not be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme.
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful.
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
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
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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
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
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
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
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
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
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Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- 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
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
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Simple living is the way to happy living.
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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
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 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
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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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
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- 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.
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
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
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Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- 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
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
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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