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En Puerto Rico el 92% de las personas exitosas, sus hijos fracazan; en todos los Estados Unidos sólo el 3% de la tercera generación de los ricos conserva su riqueza. Es malo ser rico? No. al contrario, es bueno ser lo más rico que honradamente podamos ser.
Muchos odian el dinero y la propiedad privada, a veces sin saberlo. Entendemos que la riqueza es buena, aunque puede ser mal usada. Entendemos que el trabajo aleja el ocio, la necesidad y las malas tentaciones. El trabajo honra, dignifica, le da sentido a la vida y es lo que devolverá el progreso al mundo. Enseñar a trabajar a los nietos, por sus abuelos, es la razón de ser de Veredas Educativas.

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Los Puertorriqueños tenemos la ventaja de saber (el que se ha dejado influir por mentes miopes pierde la mitad de ser) dos de los tres principales lenguajes del mundo. El español es más poético y el Inglés más práctico.

Nota: Las citas son para inquietar y motivar a pensar, no para que todos estemos de acuerdo. Cada persona y sus circunstancias son distintas y nadie piensa y no debe pensar igual a cualquier otra persona. Respetamos el derecho de cada cual a pensar como quiera. En Veredas Educativas nos dedicaremos sólo a enseñar a trabajar, lo que nos lleva a defender el derecho a la propiedad privada con responsabilidad social, como esencial para lograr ser próspero y feliz.

 

 

B:Bertrand Russell

"El ser capaz de llenar el ocio de una manera inteligente es el último resultado de la civilización." 
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"El sabio uso del ocio es un producto de la civilizacion y de la educación."
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F:Floyd Dell

"Ocio no significa inactividad; es la libertad de hacer cualquier cosa." 
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F:Francisco de Quevedo

"El ocio es la pérdida del salario." 
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G:George Bulwer-Lytton

"El amor es la actividad del ocioso y el ocio del hombre activo." 
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G:Gilbert Chesterton

"Si el vino perjudica tus negocios, deja tus negocios." 
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H:Hesiodo

"No es el trabajo lo que envilece, sino la ociosidad." 
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J:Jane Austen

"Como se sabe, los negocios pueden dar dinero, pero la amistad raramente lo hace." 
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J:Johann Wolfang Von Goethe

"Una vida ociosa es una muerte anticipada." 
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J:Jostein Gaarder

"La ociosidad es la madre de todos los vicios." 
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M:Mark Twain

"Trabajo es todo aquello que estamos obligados a hacer y juego es todo aquello que no estamos obligados a hacer." 
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M:Michael Levine

"La gente ociosa suele sentirse más cansada que la que trabaja." 
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M:Michael McCallion

"Cada emoción tiene su voz y su respiración." 
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S:Santa Teresa de Jesus

"De devociones absurdas y santos amargados, líbranos, Señor." 
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T:Thomas Carlyle

"Un monstruo hay en el mundo: el hombre ocioso." 
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La felicidad humana generalmente no se logra con grandes golpes de suerte, que pueden ocurrir pocas veces, sino con pequeñas cosas que ocurren todos los días.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Estadista y científico estadounidense.
La dicha de la vida consiste en tener siempre algo que hacer, alguien a quien amar y alguna cosa que esperar.
Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) Ministro presbiteriano, teólogo, escritor y reform
Felicidad no es hacer lo que uno quiere sino querer lo que uno hace.
Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Filósofo y escritor francés.
Algún día en cualquier parte, en cualquier lugar indefectiblemente te encontrarás a ti mismo, y ésa, sólo ésa, puede ser la más feliz o la más amarga de tus horas.
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Poeta chileno.
La felicidad es interior, no exterior; por lo tanto, no depende de lo que tenemos, sino de lo que somos.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) Escritor estadounidense.
El verdadero secreto de la felicidad consiste en exigir mucho de sí mismo y muy poco de los otros.
Albert Guinon (1863-1923) Dramaturgo francés.
Un hombre puede ser feliz con cualquier mujer mientras que no la ame.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Dramaturgo y novelista irlandés.
Existen dos maneras de ser feliz en esta vida, una es hacerse el idiota y la otra serlo.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Médico austriaco.
Mi felicidad consiste en que sé apreciar lo que tengo y no deseo con exceso lo que no tengo.
Leon Tolstoi (1828-1910) Escritor ruso.
La felicidad es la certeza de no sentirse perdido.
Jorge Bucay (1949-?) Escritor y psicoterapeuta argentino.

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La felicidad humana generalmente no se logra con grandes golpes de suerte, que pueden ocurrir pocas veces, sino con pequeñas cosas que ocurren todos los días.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Estadista y científico estadounidense.
La dicha de la vida consiste en tener siempre algo que hacer, alguien a quien amar y alguna cosa que esperar.
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Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) Ministro presbiteriano, teólogo, escritor y reform
Felicidad no es hacer lo que uno quiere sino querer lo que uno hace.
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Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Filósofo y escritor francés.
Algún día en cualquier parte, en cualquier lugar indefectiblemente te encontrarás a ti mismo, y ésa, sólo ésa, puede ser la más feliz o la más amarga de tus horas.
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Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Poeta chileno.
La felicidad es interior, no exterior; por lo tanto, no depende de lo que tenemos, sino de lo que somos.
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Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) Escritor estadounidense.
El verdadero secreto de la felicidad consiste en exigir mucho de sí mismo y muy poco de los otros.
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Albert Guinon (1863-1923) Dramaturgo francés.
Un hombre puede ser feliz con cualquier mujer mientras que no la ame.
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Dramaturgo y novelista irlandés.
Mi felicidad consiste en que sé apreciar lo que tengo y no deseo con exceso lo que no tengo.
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Leon Tolstoi (1828-1910) Escritor ruso.
La felicidad es la certeza de no sentirse perdido.
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Jorge Bucay (1949-?) Escritor y psicoterapeuta argentino.
La suprema felicidad de la vida es saber que eres amado por ti mismo o, más exactamente, a pesar de ti mismo.
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Novelista francés.
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Buscamos la felicidad, pero sin saber dónde, como los borrachos buscan su casa, sabiendo que tienen una.
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Voltaire (1694-1778) Filósofo y escritor francés.
El secreto de la felicidad no es hacer siempre lo que se quiere sino querer siempre lo que se hace.
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Leon Tolstoi (1828-1910) Escritor ruso.
Desciende a las profundidades de ti mismo, y logra ver tu alma buena. La felicidad la hace solamente uno mismo con la buena conducta.
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Sócrates (470 AC-399 AC) Filósofo griego.
Hijo mío, la felicidad está hecha de pequeñas cosas: Un pequeño yate, una pequeña mansión, una pequeña fortuna…
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Groucho Marx (1890-1977) Actor estadounidense.
El destino de los hombres está hecho de momentos felices, toda la vida los tiene, pero no de épocas felices.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Filosofo alemán.
Si eres feliz, escóndete. No se puede andar cargado de joyas por un barrio de mendigos. No se puede pasear una felicidad como la tuya por un mundo de desgraciados.
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Alejandro Casona (1903-1965) Dramaturgo español.
Lo mejor que podemos hacer en favor de quienes nos aman es seguir siendo felices.
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Alain (1868-1951) Filósofo y ensayista francés.
La felicidad es darse cuenta que nada es demasiado importante.
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Antonio Gala (1930-?) Dramaturgo, poeta y novelista español.
Sólo hay felicidad donde hay virtud y esfuerzo serio, pues la vida no es un juego.
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Aristóteles (384 AC-322 AC) Filósofo griego.
Carecer de algunas de las cosas que uno desea es condición indispensable de la felicidad.
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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Filósofo, matemático y escritor inglés.
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Vivir para los demás no es solamente una ley de deber, sino también una ley de felicidad.
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Auguste Comte (1798-1857) Filósofo francés.
La puerta de la felicidad se abre hacia dentro, hay que retirarse un poco para abrirla: si uno la empuja, la cierra cada vez más.
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Sören Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Literato y filósofo danés.
¿Qué es la felicidad sino el desarrollo de nuestras facultades?
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Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) Escritora e intelectual francesa.
La felicidad es una estación de parada en el camino entre lo demasiado y lo muy poco.
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Channing Pollock (1880-1946) Dramaturgo estadounidense.
Los hombres olvidan siempre que la felicidad humana es una disposición de la mente y no una condición de las circunstancias.
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John Locke (1632-1704) Filósofo inglés.
Ningún hombre es feliz a menos que crea serlo.
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Publio Siro (Siglo I AC-?) Poeta dramático romano.
El hombre más feliz del mundo es aquel que sepa reconocer los méritos de los demás y pueda alegrarse del bien ajeno como si fuera propio.
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) Poeta y dramaturgo alemán.
Muchas personas se pierden las pequeñas alegrías mientras aguardan la gran felicidad.
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Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) Novelista estadounidense.
Todo lo que la tierra da y todo aquello que se llama felicidad sólo es un juguete de la suerte; lo que nosotros somos, eso sólo nos pertenece.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Filósofo, poeta y teólogo suizo.
Existe un solo procedimiento para ser feliz merced al corazón, y es no tenerlo.
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Paul Charles Bourget (1852-1935) Escritor francés.
Ser estúpido, egoísta y estar bien de salud, he aquí las tres condiciones que se requieren para ser feliz. Pero si os falta la primera, estáis perdidos.
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Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Escritor francés.
El hombre feliz es el que vive objetivamente, el que es libre en sus afectos y tiene amplios intereses, el que se asegura la felicidad por medio de estos intereses y afectos que, a su vez, le convierten a él en objeto de interés y el afecto de otros muchos.
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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Filósofo, matemático y escritor inglés.
El hombre, por lo común, sólo sabe reconocer su felicidad en la medida de la desgracia que ha experimentado.
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Muslih-Ud-Din Saadi (1184-1291) Poeta persa.
La felicidad para mi consiste en gozar de buena salud, en dormir sin miedo y despertarme sin angustia.
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Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) Escritora francesa.
La felicidad es un artículo maravilloso: cuanto más se da, más le queda a uno.
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Científico, filósofo y escritor francés.
Es muy difícil hacer bella la felicidad. Una felicidad que sólo es ausencia de desdicha es cosa fea.
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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) Escritor, pintor, coreógrafo.
Creedlo, para hacernos amar no debemos preguntar nunca a quien nos ama: ¿Eres feliz?, sino decirle siempre: ¡Qué feliz soy!
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Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954) Dramaturgo español.
Estando siempre dispuestos a ser felices, es inevitable no serlo alguna vez.
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Científico, filósofo y escritor francés.
La verdadera felicidad consiste en hacer el bien.
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Aristóteles (384 AC-322 AC) Filósofo griego.
Con frecuencia, algunos buscan la felicidad como se buscan los lentes cuando se tienen sobre la nariz.
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Gustavo Dorz
La felicidad siempre viaja de incógnito. Sólo después que ha pasado, sabemos de ella.
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Anónimo
He sospechado alguna vez que la única cosa sin misterio es la felicidad, porque se justifica por sí sola.
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Escritor argentino.
Queremos ser más felices que los demás, y eso es dificilísimo, porque siempre les imaginamos mucho más felices de lo que son en realidad.
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Montesquieu (1689-1755) Escritor y político francés.
Felicidad es el sueño del amor y tristeza su despertar.
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Madame Basta
La felicidad no consiste en adquirir y gozar, sino en no desear nada, pues consiste en ser libre.
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Epicteto de Frigia (50-135) Filósofo grecolatino.
La única manera de ser feliz es que te guste sufrir.
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Woody Allen (1935-?) Actor, director y escritor estadounidense.
He cometido el peor de los pecados, quise ser feliz.
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Santa Teresa de Jesús (1515-1582) Escritora mística española.
No son las riquezas ni el esplendor, sino la tranquilidad y el trabajo, los que proporcionan la felicidad.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Político Estadounidense.
No hay medicina que cure lo que no cura la felicidad.
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Gabriel García Márquez (1927-?) Escritor colombiano.
Sólo un idiota puede ser totalmente feliz.
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Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-?) Escritor peruano
No hay más que una manera de ser feliz: vivir para los demás.
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Leon Tolstoi (1828-1910) Escritor ruso.
La felicidad consiste, principalmente, en conformarse con la suerte; es querer ser lo que uno es.
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Erasmo de Rotterdam (1469-1536) Humanista neerlandés.
La manera de conseguir la felicidad es haciendo felices a los demás.
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Robert Stephenson (1857-1941) Primer barón Baden-Powell. Militar británico y fun
La clase de felicidad que necesito es menos hacer lo que quiero que no hacer lo que no quiero.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Filósofo francés.
Hay dos maneras de conseguir la felicidad, una hacerse el idiota; otra serlo.
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Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) Escritor español.
El hombre feliz es aquel que siendo rey o campesino, encuentra paz en su hogar.
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) Poeta y dramaturgo alemán.
Quien busca la felicidad fuera de sí es como un caracol que caminara en busca de su casa.
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Constancio C. Vigil (1876-1954) Escritor y periodista uruguayo.
La felicidad no es un ideal de la razón, sino de la imaginación.
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Filosofo alemán.
La felicidad no es algo que se experimenta sino algo que se recuerda.
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G. Tohre
Toda la felicidad que la humanidad puede alcanzar, está, no en el placer, sino en el descanso del dolor.
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John Dryden (1631-1700) Escritor inglés
El bien de la humanidad debe consistir en que cada uno goce al máximo de la felicidad que pueda, sin disminuir la felicidad de los demás.
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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Novelista, ensayista y poeta inglés.
La felicidad del cuerpo se funda en la salud; la del entendimiento, en el saber.
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Tales de Mileto (624 AC-546 AC) Filósofo y matemático griego.
El ánimo gozoso hace florida la vida; el espíritu triste, marchita los sucesos.
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Salomón (970 AC-931 AC) Rey de Israel
¿Hasta cuándo vamos a seguir creyendo que la felicidad no es más que uno de los juegos de la ilusión?
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Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) Escritor argentino.
¡Qué cosa tan extraña es la felicidad! Nadie sabe por dónde ni cómo ni cuándo llega, y llega por caminos invisibles, a veces cuando ya no se le aguarda.
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Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906) Dramaturgo noruego.
Si el dinero no te da la felicidad devuélvelo.
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Jules Renard (1864-1910) Escritor y dramaturgo francés.
Pregúntate si eres feliz y dejarás de serlo.
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Filósofo y economista inglés.
Esperar una felicidad demasiado grande es un obstáculo para la felicidad.
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Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) Escritor francés.
Cualquier hombre puede llegar a ser feliz con una mujer, con tal de que no la ame
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Dramaturgo y novelista irlandés.
No hay deber que descuidemos tanto como el deber de ser felices.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Escritor británico.
No está la felicidad en vivir, sino en saber vivir.
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Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (1584-1648) Diplomático y escritor español.
El hombre más feliz es el que hace la felicidad del mayor número de sus semejantes.
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Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Escritor francés.
La felicidad que da el dinero está en no tener que preocuparse por él.
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Anónimo
La felicidad está más con el pobre que considera que tiene bastante que con el rico, que nunca cree que tiene bastante.
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Charmesse
Bebed porque sois felices, pero nunca porque seáis desgraciados.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) Escritor británico.
Todo se soporta en la vida, con excepción de muchos días de continua felicidad.
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) Poeta y dramaturgo alemán.
La felicidad es mejor imaginarla que tenerla.
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Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954) Dramaturgo español.
La felicidad general de un pueblo descansa en la independencia individual de sus habitantes.
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José Martí (1853-1895) Político y escritor cubano.
La felicidad está en la ignorancia de la verdad.
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Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) Poeta y erudito italiano.
No vivimos nunca, sino que esperamos vivir; y disponiéndonos siempre a ser felices, es inevitable que no lo seamos nunca.
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Científico, filósofo y escritor francés.
La felicidad recupera en altura lo que le falta en longitud.
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Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) Poeta estadounidense.
Si quieres comprender la palabra felicidad, tienes que entenderla como recompensa y no como fin.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) Escritor francés.
¿Cuál es la felicidad que no tiene algo de pena?
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Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (1828-1897) Novelista, escritora y biógrafa escocesa.
¿Por qué buscais la felicidad, oh, mortales, fuera de vosotros mismos?
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Boecio (480-524) Filósofo y estadista romano.
¡Dejadme escapar de la mentirosa y criminal ilusión de la felicidad! Dadme trabajo, cansancio, dolor y entusiasmo.
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George Sand (1804-1876) Escritora francesa.
Nada nos puede impedir sentir esta maravillosa felicidad de ser preferidos a otros.
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André Maurois (1885-1967) Novelista y ensayista francés.
Cuán feliz era yo cuando era una infeliz.
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Marquesa de Sévigné (1626-1696) Escritora francesa.
Cuando se es feliz, queda mucho por hacer: consolar a los demás.
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Jules Renard (1864-1910) Escritor y dramaturgo francés.
Cada uno es tan infeliz como cree.
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Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) Poeta y erudito italiano.
La felicidad de los grandes consiste no en sentirse felices, sino en comprender cuan felices piensan otros que han de ser ellos.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Filósofo y estadista británico.
Hacer felices a otros hombres: no hay nada mejor ni más bello.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Compositor y músico alemán.
Hay una especie de vergüenza en ser feliz a la vista de ciertas miserias.
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Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696) Escritor francés.
Lo horrible de este mundo es que buscamos con el mismo ardor el hacernos felices y el impedir que los demás lo sean.
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Conde de Rivarol (1753-1801) Escritor francés.
La felicidad no es cosa fácilmente digerible; es, más bien, muy indigesta.
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Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) Filósofo y escritor español.
La felicidad no está en la ciencia, sino en la adquisición de la ciencia.
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Escritor estadounidense.
El deber tiene una gran similitud con la felicidad de los demás.
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Novelista francés.
No entiendo por qué el que es dichoso busca mayor felicidad.
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Marco Tulio Cicerón (106 AC-43 AC) Escritor, orador y político romano.
Si deseas felicidad de los demás, sé compasivo. Si deseas tu propia felicidad, sé compasivo.
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Dalai Lama
La felicidad es tanto mayor cuanto menos la advertimos.
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Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) Alberto Pincherle. Escritor italiano.
Cuando uno dice que sabe lo que es la felicidad, se puede suponer que la ha perdido.
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Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) Escritor belga.
¡La felicidad! No existe palabra con más acepciones; cada uno la entiende a su manera.
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Cecilia Bohl de Faber (1796-1879) Escritora española.
El saber es la parte más considerable de la felicidad.
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Sófocles (495AC-406AC) Poeta trágico griego.
La sociedad está obligada a hacer feliz a todos la vida.
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Jacques Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704) Clérigo católico francés y escritor.
La vida nos enseña que no podemos ser felices sino al precio de cierta ignorancia.
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Anatole France (1844-1924) Escritor francés.
Es quizás más afortunado disfrutar coleccionando caracolas que el haber nacido millonario.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Escritor británico.
Ponemos más interés en hacer creer a los demás que somos felices que en tratar de serlo.
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François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Escritor francés.
La felicidad ininterrumpida aburre: debe tener alternativas.
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Molière (1622-1673) Comediografo francés.
La felicidad es una cosa monstruosa. Quienes la buscan encuentran su castigo.
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Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Escritor francés.
Si nos bastase ser felices, la cosa sería facilísima; pero nosotros queremos ser más felices que los demás, y esto es casi siempre imposible, porque creemos que los demás son bastante más felices de lo que son en realidad.
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Montesquieu (1689-1755) Escritor y político francés.
La felicidad no es nunca grandiosa.
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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Novelista, ensayista y poeta inglés.

Feliz

Existen dos maneras de ser feliz en esta vida, una es hacerse el idiota y la otra serlo.
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Médico austriaco.
He cometido el peor pecado que uno puede cometer. No he sido feliz.
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Escritor argentino.
¿Qué hace falta para ser feliz? Un poco de cielo azul encima de nuestras cabezas, un vientecillo tibio, la paz del espíritu.
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André Maurois (1885-1967) Novelista y ensayista francés.
Si quieres ser feliz, como me dices, no analices, muchacho, no analices.
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Joaquín Bartrina (1850-1880) Poeta español.
Dad al hombre salud y metas a alcanzar y no se detendrá a pensar sobre si es o no feliz.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Escritor irlandés.
Nadie puede ser feliz si no se aprecia a sí mismo.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Filósofo francés.
Las personas felices no tienen historia.
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) Novelista e intelectual francesa.
No eres ambicioso: te contentas con ser feliz.
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Escritor argentino.
El hombre feliz es más raro que un cuervo blanco.
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Juvenal (67-127) Poeta satírico romano.
Siempre habrá un perro perdido en alguna parte que me impedirá ser feliz.
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Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) Escritor y dramaturgo francés.
Todo el mundo desea ser feliz, pero no que lo sea todo el mundo.
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Jaume Perich (1941-1995) Humorista español.
Sería muy poco feliz si pudiera decir hasta qué punto lo soy.
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Escritor británico.
Nadie es feliz sino por comparación.
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Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) Dramaturgo inglés.
Un hombre feliz es un bien común.
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George Chapman (1559-1634) Poeta, dramaturgo y traductor inglés.
¡Qué felices serían los campesinos si supieran que son felices!
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Virgilio (70 a.C.-19 a.C.) Poeta romano.
Happiness Quotes 
From Wisdom Quotes: Quotations to inspire and challenge - by Jone Johnson Lewis
Quotations in English http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_happiness.html
ABD ER-RAHMAN III OF SPAIN:

I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. (960 C.E.)


ABRAHAM LINCOLN:

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.-


ALBERT CAMUS:

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.


ALBERT CAMUS:

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?


ALBERT CAMUS:

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.


ALBERT CAMUS:

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.


ALBERT SCHWEITZER:

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.


ALBERT SCHWEITZER:

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.


ALBERT SCHWEITZER:

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.


ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN:

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.


ALEXANDRE DUMAS:

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.


ALGERNON BLACK:

Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.


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ALLAN K. CHALMERS:

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.


AMY LOWELL:

Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.


ANNE FRANK:

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.


ANNE FRANK:

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 and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.


ARISTOTLE:

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient


BARUCH SPINOZA:

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.


BENJAMIN DISRAELI:

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.


BERTRAND RUSSELL:

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.


BERTRAND RUSSELL:

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.


BROTHER DAVID STEINDL-RAST :

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.


BUDDHA:

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.


C. P. SNOW:

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.


CARL JUNG:

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.


CARL JUNG:

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.


CHARLES SCHULZ:

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?


CLAUDE MONET:

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.


DENIS WAITLEY:

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.


ECCLESIASTES:

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8


EDITH WHARTON:

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.


EDWARD DE BONO:

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.


ELLA WHEELER WILCOX:

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.


ERIC HOFFER:

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.


FELIX ADLER:

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.


FRAN LEIBOWITZ:

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.


FRANCOISE DE MOTTEVILLE:

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.


FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT:

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.


GEORGE BURNS:

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.


GEORGE SAND:

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.


H.H. THE DALAI LAMA:

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.


H.H. THE DALAI LAMA:

Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.


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H.H. THE DALAI LAMA:

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.


H.H. THE DALAI LAMA:

The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.


HELEN KELLER:

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.


HELEN KELLER:

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.


HELEN KELLER:

Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.


HENRY DAVID THOREAU:

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.


HENRY DAVID THOREAU:

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?


HORACE FRIESS:

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.


HUBERT H. HUMPHREY:

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.


JAMES M. BARRIE:

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.


JAMES OPPENHEIM:

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.


JOHN BARRYMORE:

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.


JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER:

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.


JOHN MILTON:

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.


KALIDASA:

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the 
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes 
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!


KIN HUBBARD:

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.


LEO BUSCAGLIA:

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.


LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN:

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.


M. SCOTT PECK:

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.


MARCEL PROUST:

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.


MARGARET BONNANO:

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.


MARK TWAIN:

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.


MARK TWAIN:

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.


MARK TWAIN:

Happiness is a Swedish sunset -- it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.


MARK TWAIN:

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.


MARTHA WASHINGTON:

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.


MOHANDAS K. GANDHI:

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.


NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE:

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.


NORMAN MACEWAN:

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.


OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.


PEARL S. BUCK:

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.


PEMA CHODRON:

Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -- or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.


PEYTON CONWAY MARCH:

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.


RALPH WALDO EMERSON:

To fill the hour -- that is happiness.


RALPH WALDO EMERSON:

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.


RAMONA L. ANDERSON:

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.


ROBERT HEINLEIN:

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.


ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON:

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.


SOPHOCLES:

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.


SUSAN B. ANTHONY:

Independence is happiness.


THEODOR FONTANE:

Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.


THICH NHAT HANH:

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.


THICH NHAT HANH:

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.


THOMAS JEFFERSON:

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.


THOMAS JEFFERSON:

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.


W. BERAN WOLFE:

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.


WILLA CATHER:

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.
http://www.objectivehappiness.com/?g&gclid=CKzj4unB350CFRtY2godY3gWKQ
A Self-Help Freedom Philosophy

1. The Path - 2. The Map

3. The Directions

4. The 'Secret' Formula


5. Notes and Opinions I, II, III, and IV 

6. Other Resource Links
1. The Path

What is the path to objective happiness? 

"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."--Aristotle

Happiness is living in a state of freely choosing to create and exchange rational valuesneeded for yourself and others. Being on the path to beneficial and long-lasting happiness does not mean you cannot be happy here and now while on the journey towards more happiness. 

The objective of happiness is not and can never be a final destination that ends, but is found as a never-ending experience while traveling the road of better learning and living. The awareness and reminder of your love of life and discovery of your life's purpose will help to keep you on your path. When you find yourself off the path, simply get back on, or create another way to your destination. Never give up.

"In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness."--Nathaniel Branden

Whatever you expect and unite with emotion and persistent action, you get. Always desire exactly what rationally pleases you and allow yourself to receive it. Use the tools to blaze a trail and create your own road map. Your unique path to happiness will guide the creation of your personal map and direction. The open and expansive path to happiness is by achieving your rational self-interest through the free creation and exchange of your values with others.


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2. The Map

Supreme Objective - Supreme Effect:
HAPPINESS 

Primary Values - Primary Causes:Space, Time, Matter & Energy -------------Quality, efficient, productive, & effective.

Liberty ---------------------------- Self-control (responsibility) & self-interest (freedom).

Productive work, play, purpose & passion ---------- Creating & exchanging values.

Relationships ---------------- Romance for men & women, friendship, & self-esteem. 

Supreme Value - Supreme Cause:
Existence -------- Dynamic conscious life (spiritual, mental, and physical health).

Primary Actions:

  • Be centered within yourself, own it, and aware of the space around you.
  • Be curious to know, honor, and value what is in the here and now.
  • Be loyal and honest within your heart and mind to accept what is.
  • Be thankful and enjoy what is, including your possible desire to change it.
  • Be committed to your personal integrity, passion, and self-responsibility.
  • Be true to yourself and to others, while owning your experiences.

    Supreme Action:
  • Be joyful in living your purpose based on your freely chosen rational values.

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    3.     The Directions

    What is the value of happiness?

    "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."--Aristotle

    The creation and exchange of value is the root of all happiness. The love of earned value is the root of all the 'Happy' who have created more value than they have consumed or those who are learning to earn more values. The love of unearned value is the root of all the 'Unhappy' who have consumed more value than they have created or those who are learning to possess more unearned values. 

    The lovers of unearned value envy those who have earned values and cannot exist without them. As individuals, we choose how we will obtain values. At any time, the 'Happy' may choose unhappiness, and the 'Unhappy' may choose happiness. 

    "Happiness is a state of noncontradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of producer."--Ayn Rand

    What is needed to obtain values?

    "A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom."--F.A. Hayek

    Liberty is the freedom to choose one's own way in life and the responsibility to live with the consequences, while at the same time allowing others the same freedom and expecting from them the same responsibility.

    Primary Attributes of the 'Happy'
  •  Independent Inter-dependence
  •  Integrated Thinking
  •  Live Consciously
  •  Self-responsible
  •  Dynamic
  •  Grateful
  •  Purposeful
  •  Passionate
  •  Courageous
  •  Open Flexibility
  •  Emotional Acceptance

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    Primary Attributes of the 'Unhappy'
  •  Inter-dependent Dependence
  •  Disintegrated Thinking
  •  Live by Default
  •  Accusatory
  •  Stagnant
  •  Envious
  •  Indecisive
  •  Indifferent
  •  Cowardly
  •  Closed Rigidity
  •  Emotional Repression

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    The 'Happy' honestly create and freely exchange values that solve problems where they exist. The 'Unhappy' deceptively and/or forcefully take and use values that create problems where none need exist. Again, the 'Happy' may choose unhappiness at any time, and the 'Unhappy' may choose happiness at any time. So, choose wisely and act accordingly!

    "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."--Albert Einstein

    The only moral use of deception and force is used as a last resort to defend against a harmful and/or unjust attack or threat to one's self or property. You own your life. Others do not have a claim over your life, and you do not have a claim over the life of others. 

      "A product of your life and liberty is your property. Property is the fruit of your labor--the product of your time, energy and talents--that part of nature from which you have used to create values for yourself and tradable to others through voluntary mutual consent."--An animated introduction to 'The Philosophy of Liberty', (isil.org)

    "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe...."
    --Frederick Douglass

    What is the nature of knowledge and reality? 

    "If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning."--Carl Rogers

    New and complex knowledge is integrated, built, and expanded through old and simple knowledge. Knowledge is contextual. Reality is relational. Reality is all of existence that exists here and now. 

      "Reality is that which exists. It is absolute. It is the standard of the true, the false, and the arbitrary. Things are what they are, independent of our or anyone else's feelings, ideas, wishes, desires, and emotions. Or, in the immortal words of Aristotle: A is A. To be, is to be something: finite, limited, and non-contradictory."
      --The Capitalism Tour, (capitalism.org)
    One's perception of reality is changed only by our relationships to it because of our new knowledge, experiences, and/or beliefs. Energy/matter and time/space are relative to the perceiver. Everything that exists is composed of matter and energy that cannot be created or destroyed, which always has and always will exist in one form or another. 

    Objective reality exists independently inter-dependent with one's mind. The facts of reality, which are relevant to you, can be known through your reasoning and feeling capacities, enhanced by the achievement of your needs for survival, desire for advancement, and production of values through creative thoughts, beliefs, and actions. 

    "We learn by doing."--Aristotle

    What is the cause of action?

    "Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts, and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure."--Mohandas K. Gandhi

    People may respond to events, circumstances, or situations differently. One's automatic emotional response is determined by one's previously set thoughts and values. A thought may be chosen or unchosen, conscious or unconscious. The words and advice of others may be freely taken when that advice has been integrated into one's own knowledge and understood to be valuable. 

    To act on the advice from others without regard to outcome avoids the responsibility of independent judgment and freethinking decisions needed to prosper and be happy. Without independent thought, you will become as an automaton. To follow a follower, you are guided to an unknown destination. So, follow only those who have demonstrated success. To be guided by a definite purpose of your choosing, success will follow and meet you at your destination. 

    To become what you desire, you must respond wisely to what is happening, which requires rational, independent, and creative thought. Since we cannot control all events, circumstances, and situations or know what the emotions of others and ourselves will be, we can learn to experience them in ways that promote better analysis of thought and well-directed actions. 

    Only one's actions can be judged as moral or immoral. Actions produce emotions that are personal, private, and valid parts of an individual. When emotions are felt and honestly accepted without fear or guilt, the reasoning mind can help to better know one's deepest values. Pleasure is a sign of acting in harmony with one's values and pain is a sign of acting out of harmony with one's values. 

    To act solely on one's emotions will likely cause undesired results. Emotions are not the primary cause of thoughts, but are the effect of one's value judgments that will spark and fuel secondary thoughts and feelings. To act in a way that produces desired results, one's thoughts and beliefs must be chosen toward that end. Thoughts and beliefs are ultimately combined with feelings and actions to produce tangible results that are parallel to those original thoughts and beliefs. 

    After one's thoughts and beliefs have changed, one's actions and results will change. Choose your thoughts wisely. Upon whatever one consistently thinks, one eventually acts. You will become your consistent thoughts.

    "Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does man harvest the sweet and bitter fruits of his own husbandry."--James Allen

    PERCEIVE and trust your senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste while at the same time accepting your initial thoughts, beliefs, and emotions for what they are. This is the identification of values needed for survival and desires for your enjoyment and enhancement of life.

  • Be centered within yourself, own it, and aware of the space around you.
  • Be curious to know, honor, and value what is in the here and now.

    UNDERSTAND and integrate your perceptions, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, desires, experiences, concepts, principles, and values. Put that understanding into context in relation to you through a non-contradictory manner. Reality cannot contradict itself. If any perceived data contradicts another, one or more of the data may be misunderstood, lacking or false. 

    Reject beliefs that do not serve you and choose rational beliefs that do serve your naturalpurpose. Find all relevant facts by using honesty, logic, and reason. New and better opportunities will be revealed to you through your consciously chosen or accepted rationalbeliefs. 

    "It is easy enough to say, 'Be true to your values.' But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem."--Nathaniel Branden

  • Be curious to know, honor, and value what is in the here and now.
  • Be loyal and honest within your heart and mind to accept what is.
  • Be committed to your personal integrity, passion, and self-responsibility.

    THINK and FEEL what that perceived data is telling you within your context and relation to it. You will have either a need or desire that is unfulfilled or will be reflecting on the achievement of your desires. If a desire is being unfulfilled, determine whether it would be good for you or bad for you if you were to obtain it. 

    Feel it. Breathe into it. Visualize it. Watch it with curiosity. Meditate on it. (See it, listen to it, smell it, touch it, taste it, chew it, swallow it, digest it, etc.) Then ask yourself how it makes you feel. Whether the emotion is good, bad, or neutral, just observe, accept, allow, and feel it.

    Accepting an emotion is simply being aware of it and does not necessarily mean one has to agree with it. Let whatever happens be all right. If you repress or fight the emotion, it will gain strength and control you. If you fully accept and feel the emotion, you give yourself the power to understand and overcome it. 

    A good feeling is the integration of values with one's thoughts or actions and a bad feeling is the disintegration of values with one's thoughts or actions. Whatever you consciously or subconsciously expect and unite with emotion and persistent action, you will get. Accept and allow what is. Feel deeply and honestly in order to think clearly and logically to identify and understand your desires and life's purpose. 

    Write down your desires. A desire left in the mind may remain an unrealized dream and forgotten, but when written down becomes a goal to be acted upon, achieved and remembered. Turn your dreams into reality by thinking, feeling, and acting on what you desire.

    "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
    --Albert Einstein

    If you have a worthy desire that is not currently in the process of fulfillment, you may have not gone outward enough for answers into the unknown but knowable territory. You may be too concerned with irrelevant details. One way to fix this imbalance is to look up and focus your time, energy, and talents toward the fulfillment of your own desires with the possible help from others. 

    Gather the courage to take advantage of opportunities and risk following your dreams. This will give you an outer perspective and inner satisfaction that will inspire balanced thoughts and feelings, which will lead you to your goal. 

    If you have not found a worthy desire, you may have not gone inward enough for answers into the unknown but knowable territory. You may be too unconcerned with relevant details. One way to fix this imbalance is to look around and focus your time, energy, and talents toward the fulfillment of the desires of others who may need your help.

    Take advantage of opportunities to find out what you really desire to do. This will give you an inner perspective and outer satisfaction that will inspire balanced thoughts and feelings, which will lead you to your purpose. 

    "Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go."--T.S. Eliot

  • Be loyal and honest within your heart and mind to accept what is.
  • Be thankful and enjoy what is, including your possible desire to change it.
  • Be committed to your personal integrity, passion, and self-responsibility.
  • Be true to yourself and to others, while owning your experiences.

    PLAN steps of action within your purpose to create the map and achieve your goal. Write them down. Start with the desired goal, and logically work backwards to where you are now to see what needs to be done, step-by-step. If you cannot see or think of the plan fully and completely, simply move in the general direction towards your goal and expect to reach it. When you are moving in the direction of your expectations, you will be able to see the stepsneeded to reach your goal. 

    Without a consciously planned map, you will be at the total mercy of events and circumstances out of your control. Within your total control is your plan. Even though you did not cause events and circumstances out of your control, you will have to deal with them rationally and act towards your goal. Become a flexible person and create your own circumstances!

    "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." 
    --Benjamin Disraeli

  • Be thankful and enjoy what is, including your possible desire to change it.
  • Be committed to your personal integrity, passion, and self-responsibility.
  • Be true to yourself and to others, while owning your experiences.

    ACT toward your goal with a determined and persistent focus on each planned step while being aware of the full context and relationship of your purpose. With every act, there is an opportunity to learn from each outcome, both good and bad. If your actions are not leading you toward your goal, you may have not understood, or may be lacking some relevant facts. 

    Rid yourself of actions that waste your time, energy, and talents, while at the same time receiving the proper rest and time for reflection. Once reaching the next step of action, you will see with more clarity, think more soundly, and feel more in touch with your purpose, goals, and expectations. Become dedicated and maintain the habit of doing what needs to done. 

    Keep movement in your feet, a good word readily on the tip of your tongue, the achievement of your goals on the top of your head, and your life's purpose fully from the bottom of your heart. Then you will find success, prosperity, and happiness all along the way. 

    "To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."--Bernard Edmonds

  • Be committed to your personal integrity, passion, and self-responsibility.
  • Be true to yourself and to others, while owning your experiences.
  • Be joyful in living your purpose based on your freely chosen rational values.

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    4.     The 'Secret' Formula 

    What is the 'secret' formula to happiness?

    "To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal."--Earl Nightingale

    Since, what we have imagined in the past has determined what is happening now; what we imagine today will determine what will happen tomorrow. Therefore, if we want to Have a better future, we must Be and Do the things that must be done in a better way Now; learn from our past Now; imagine our future Now; and experience our best-imagined lives NOW!

    Freely Choose to Make a Decision to Move into Action Now!
  • Know what you really desire, why you really desire it, and when you really desire it.
  • Write down your desire in present tense, being positive, and grateful; Read > 3 times daily.
  • Mix with intense positive thoughts and feelings. Include a current action plan. (See Example)
  • Use all your senses when clearly imagining and emoting your goal's accomplishment.
  • Keep those good feelings with expectation, gratitude, and no doubts as long as possible.
  • Touch your written goal throughout the day, everyday, to reflect on those good feelings.

    Do this continuously until you Think / Feel about; ask yourself How to; and Decide what ACTION(S) to take to achieve your goal. Then ACT. You have now become Self-Motivated!
    Desire + (Emotion ÷ Reason) × (Imagination - Doubt) + (Gratitude ÷ Persistence) + (Expectation × Action) =
    Happiness

    This formula works! The best way to Learn is to Do, while the only way to Do is to Move into Action Now! May you live a long, healthy, successful, liberty-filled, prosperous, and happy life. Thank You!
    John Roberts
    RebelWithACause.com

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    (An example of the formula in action) 

    My Goal

    I am very happy and grateful now that I easily continue to attract highly self-motivated people who:
  • Freely choose to join with me or allow me to join with them in the discovery, study, and application of the principles within this formula and other personal growth and business tools while together we:
  • Freely create and exchange rational values for others in order to:
  • Actively or passively earn multiple sources of income and continually:
  • Achieve our own personal health, success, prosperity, and happiness.
    		•

    My Action Plan

  • Be centered within myself, own it, and aware of the space around me.
  • Be curious to know, honor, and value what is in the here and now.
  • Be loyal and honest within my heart and mind to accept what is.
  • Be thankful and enjoy what is, including my possible desire to change it.
  • Be committed to my personal integrity, passion, and self-responsibility.
  • Be true to myself and to others, while owning my experiences.
  • Be joyful in living my purpose based on my freely chosen rational values.

    Thank you,
    John Roberts 

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    http://www.quotegarden.com/happiness.html
    The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself.  ~Benjamin Franklin


    Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.  ~Jacques Prévert


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


    Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.  ~Palmer Sondreal


    Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.  ~Robert Anthony


    The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.  ~Mark Twain


    If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.  ~Edith Wharton


    Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place.  But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.  ~E.L. Konigsburg


    Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.  ~Cynthia Nelms


    Happiness is always a by-product.  It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.  But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.  ~Robertson Davies


    Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.  ~Norm Papernick


    Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  ~Fyodor Dostoevsky


    What a wonderful life I've had!  I only wish I'd realized it sooner.  ~Colette


    The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  ~James Openheim


    Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.  ~John Barrymore


    "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.  ~A.A. Milne


    People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.  ~H. Jackson Browne


    It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.  Poverty and wealth have both failed.  ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


    Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other.  When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.  ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)


    Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.  ~Margaret Young


    Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.  ~St. Augustine


    Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


    There are two things to aim at in life:  first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.  ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931


    This is my "depressed stance."  When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand.  The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better.  If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.  ~Charlie Brown


    Pleasure is spread through the earth
    In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
    ~William Wordsworth, 1806


    Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


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


    Happiness is a form of courage.  ~Holbrook Jackson


    We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.  ~Jean de La Bruyere


    Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.  ~Christian Nestell Bovee


    We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.  ~Frederick Keonig


    Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.  ~Emily Logan Decens


    Every now and then,
    when the world sits just right,
    a gentle breath of heaven
    fills my soul with delight...
    ~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven


    It's never too late to have a happy childhood.  ~Berke Breathed


    Happiness is the soundtrack of my life.  ~Grey Livingston


    Happiness?  That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.  ~Albert Schweitzer


    Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt


    Happiness is a direction, not a place.  ~Sydney J. Harris


    Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.  ~Janet Lane


    A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.  ~Author Unknown


    If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  ~Dalai Lama


    Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.  ~Author Unknown


    There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.  ~Lady Blessington


    The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.  ~Author Unknown


    A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.  ~Bernard de Fontenelle


    Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?  ~Yevgeny Zamyatin


    A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap.  ~Miriam Muhammad


    Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.  ~Immanuel Kant


    Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.  ~Johann Pestalozzi


    He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


    If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


    Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.  ~Sigmund Freud


    There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.  ~Salvador Dali


    The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett


    We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.  ~Walter Savage Landor


    The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.  ~George Bernard Shaw


    Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.  ~Doug Larson


    The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.  ~Eric Hoffer,The Passionate State of Mind, 1954


    If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.  ~Bertrand Russell


    The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.  ~Doug Larson


    Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world.  Don't go through life creaking.  ~H.W. Byles


    What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.  ~Kitty O'Neill Collins


    My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.  ~William Shakespeare


    Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.  ~John Stuart Mill,Autobiography, 1873


    We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


    The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.  ~Joseph Roux


    As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.  ~Andrew Delbanco


    Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.  ~Author Unknown


    Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.  ~Author Unknown


    So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.  ~Booth Tarkington


    Jumping for joy is good exercise.  ~Author Unknown


    She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.  ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."


    Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.  ~Gretta Brooker Palmer


    Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.  ~Channing Pollock,Mr. Moneypenny


    The happy have whole days,
    and those they choose.
    The unhappy have but hours,
    and those they lose.
    ~Colley Cibber


    When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.  ~Antonio Porchia,Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


    The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.  ~Charles L. Morgan


    Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.  ~Iris Murdoch


    Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.  ~Thomas Szasz


    When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.  ~Niccolo Machiavelli


    You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.  ~Author Unknown


    The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.  ~Ernest Dimnet


    One joy scatters a hundred griefs.  ~Chinese Proverb


    We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.  ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898


    One should be either sad or joyful.  Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.  ~Eugene O'Neill


    A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.  ~Seneca


    One filled with joy preaches without preaching.  ~Mother Teresa


    Misery is almost always the result of thinking.  ~Joseph Joubert


    My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.  ~Thornton Wilder


    Be happy.  It's one way of being wise.  ~Colette


    Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.  ~Frederich Nietzsche,Thus Spake Zarathustra


    The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.  ~William Saroyan


    People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.  ~Anton Chekhov


    Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.  ~Douglas Jerrold


    Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.  ~Don Herold


    If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.  ~Taisen Deshimaru


    It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.  ~Georges Duhamel


    If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success.  All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.  ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden


    The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.  ~J.D. Salinger


    The only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was - or wasn't.  ~D.H. Mondfleur


    Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
    Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
    ~Emily Dickinson


    Happiness is a function of accepting what is.  ~Werner Erhard


    Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.  ~Maxim Gorky


    Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.  ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863


    Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.  ~Joseph Addison


    Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought.  Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.  ~Samuel Johnson


    There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.  ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo


    Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


    In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?  ~Leslie Caron


    On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.  ~William R. Inge


    I hate being happy.  It pisses me off.  Because I know if I try to grab it, it will slip away, like one of those goddamn water snakes.  And I hate just looking.  I always try to grab.  ~D.H. Mondfleur


    To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.  ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956


    Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.  ~Mahatma Gandhi


    When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land.  ~Grey Livingston


    Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth:  we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


    Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.  ~Don Marquis


    If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard


    Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.  ~Guilaume Apollinaire


    When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive.  Call him a breathing corpse.  ~Sophocles


    Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


    Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.  ~Hosea Ballou


    To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.  ~Charles Caleb Colton


    Some pursue happiness, others create it.  ~Author Unknown


    The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.  ~Epictetus


    Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.  ~Author Unknown


    Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.  ~George Bernard Shaw


    Happiness is the natural flower of duty.  ~Phillips Brooks


    But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?  ~Albert Camus


    Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.  ~Thomas Jefferson


    We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.  ~Charles Kingsley


    You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.  ~Lavetta Sue Wegman


    It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.  ~Jean Ingelow


    If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.  He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.  He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself.  He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.  ~W. Beran Wolfe


    You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.  You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.  ~Albert Camus


    Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.  ~Norman Bradburn


    If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.  ~Josh Billings


    Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.  ~William Feather


    Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.  ~Johnny Carson


    I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.  I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.  ~J.D. Salinger


    Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


    Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust


    For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.  ~Author Unknown


    To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.  ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness


    Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.  ~Mildred Barthel


    [U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.  ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829


    Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.  ~Robert Frost


    The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.  ~Author Unknown


    Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck


    Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.  ~Charles Gow


    All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


    Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.  ~Robert S. Lynd


    I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot:  they amount to fourteen.  ~Abd-El-Raham


    The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:  if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.  ~C.P. Snow


    Happiness:  an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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    Quotes on Happiness

    by the Dalai Lama

     

    " Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

    - Dalai Lama 

     

    " If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

    - Dalai Lama 

     

    " The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

    - Dalai Lama 

     

    " I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…"
    A baby is born with a need to be loved---and never outgrows it. 
    - Frank A. Clark


    A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself 
    - Francis Ward Weller


    A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. 
    - Cicero


    A happy life must be o great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. 
    - Bertrand Russell


    A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. 
    - Proverbs


    A sound head, an honest heart, and a humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to Eternity. 
    - Unknown


    And once I showed you the way to the new World, nothing was easier than to follow it. 
    - Christopher Columbus


    Be grateful for what you have, not regretful for what you haven’t. 
    - Unknown


    Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead. 
    - Ram Dass


    Better to be happy than wise. 
    - John Heywood


    Change your thoughts and you change your world. 
    - William James


    Faith is a gift of the spirit that allows the soul to remain attached to its own unfolding. 
    - Thomas Moore


    Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 
    - Unknown


    God don’t make no junk! 
    - Herbert Barks


    Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others. 
    - Unknown


    Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. 
    - Amiel


    Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. 
    - Unknown


    Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. 
    - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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    Quotes: Happiness

    A Select Collection of Quotes: Happiness

    By Simran Khurana, About.com

    Joseph Addison: Quotes: Happiness
    Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

    Jimmy Buffett: Quotes: Happiness
    Fun is about as good as a habit as there is.

    Denis Waitley: Quotes: Happiness
    Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

    Storm Jameson: Quotes: Happiness
    Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

    Earl Nightingale: Quotes: Happiness
    Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

    John Mason Good: Quotes: Happiness
    Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.

    Aristotle: Quotes: Happiness
    Happiness depends upon ourselves.

    Theodore I. Rubin: Quotes: Happiness
    Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

    Gretta Brooker Palmer: Quotes: Happiness
    Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

    The above list of quotations is page 22 of a collection of motivational and inspirational quotes on Happiness.
     

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    It is peace and gentleness and lightheartedness.  It is being  thankful for all the 
    little special things which happen around us and to us  every day.  To be happy
    is to be able to get a perspective when things look dark and you start to lose 
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    The main thing is that we hear and enjoy life's music everywhere.
                                                                                     - Theodore Fontane
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    The first recipe of happiness - avoid too lengthy meditations on
          the past.
                                                                                     - Andre Maurois
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    That is happiness -  to be dissolved into something complete
           and great.
                                                                                - Willa Cather
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    The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, 
            the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more
           we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
                                                                                - Ezra Taft Benson
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    If I feel depressed, I go to work.  Work is always an antidote to
           depression.
                                                                                 - Eleanor Roosevelt                                                                                             
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    Happiness is the best medicine.
                                                                                                     
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    Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably.  There may be other 
          things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably 
          to think very deeply about them.
                                                                                                     - Peter Cook 
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    Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have
          made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
                                                                              - Charles Wiley 
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    When you finally allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it,
          you will find you dance with everything.
                                                                                         - Emanuel 
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    Open your arms and welcome the joy of today!

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    The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
                                                                                - E E. Cummings 
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    Don't waste a minute being unhappy.  If one window closes - run
           to the next window - or break down a door.

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    True happiness arises in the first place from enjoyment of oneself.
                                                                                        - Joseph Addition
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    The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware - joyously,
          drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
                                                                                        - Henry Miller
                                                                                             
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    To be happy, do not add to your possessions, but subtract from
           your desires.
                                                                                             
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    Live with your whole being all the days of your life.  Your reward will
           be true happiness.
                                                                                            - Rebecca Thomas Shane 
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    Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with
            a steady and perpetual serenity.
                                                                                            - Joseph Addison 
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    To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of  radiating
           happiness.
                                                                                            - Malcolm Forbes 
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    The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do,
          but in liking what one has to do.  
                                                                                            - James Barrie 
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    Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.
                                                                                            - Lucy Mand Montgomery 
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    Cultivate caring and generosity.  Happiness is the natural state of 
         a loving heart.

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    The real joy of life is in its play.  Play is anything we do for the joy and
         love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty.
         It is the real joy of living.
                                                                                                        - Walter Rauschbusch 
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    Perceive and rejoice that life is abundant, that beauty and goodness
           are amply available . . . that your happiness is in your hands.
                                                                                             - Paul Hodges
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    To love others makes us happy.

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    Happiness is a grateful spirit, an optimistic attitude, and a
         heart full of love. 
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    The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.  It is not
         that we seize them, but they seize us.
                                                                                                 - Ashley Montagu     
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    Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget 
         about it.
                                                                                      - James Prevert 
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    Happy people roll with the punches.  They know from experience that
         everything changes.  Today's good fortune may vanish tomorrow, 
         today's crises may turn out to be tomorrow's good fortune.
         
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    To pursue joy is to lose it.  The only way to get it is to follow steadily
         the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it 
         comes most surely, unsought.
                                                                                      - A. Marc Lauren 
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    Happiness does not consist in things, but in the relish we have of
           them . . .
                                                                                   - Francois duc de la Rochefoucald 
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    Once a happy thought gets started, you can't help but feel 
           warm-hearted.

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    To be happy with simple pleasures is no simple matter.
        
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    You cannot be thankful and unhappy at the same time.
        
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    You don't have to know how to sing, it's feeling as though you want
        to that makes the day happy and successful.
                                                                                                          - Monica Crane 
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    What a wonderful life I've had.  I only wish I had realized it sooner.
                                                                                                          - Collette 
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     Happiness is really a deep harmonious inner satisfaction and approval.
                                                                                                   -     Francis Wilshire

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    Happiness is good health and a bad memory
                                                                        - Ingrid Bergman
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    It's the little moments that make life big.

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    Everyone is responsible for their own joy.

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    Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. 
           
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    The secret of happiness is curiosity.
                                                                                               -Norman Douglas 
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    The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count  his
        blessings not his cash.

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    Seize the humor of the moment.

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    What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  They are trifles,
        to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is
        inconceivable.

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    Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.  A good laugh 
           makes better friends with ourselves and everybody around.
                                                                                    -Orison Marden 
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     Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like a violin.
     
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    Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive. 

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    The plain fact is that human beings are happy only when they are
         striving for something worthwhile.

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    A certain simplicity of living is usually necessary to happiness.
                                                                                                - Henry D. Chapin
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    Finding fun in simple ways makes the happiest days.

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     A happy heart makes a cheerful face.
                                                                                                 - Proverbs 15:13
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     Always remember to forget the things that made you sad,
          but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.  
                                                                                                    - Victor Borge
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    Enjoy your life without comparing it to others.
                                                                                               -     Condobcet
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    I am not fully dressed until I adorn myself with a smile.

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    May you be truly blessed to always glitter with a radiance that shines
          from deep within you.
                                                                                           - Barbara Becker Holstein
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    Quotes on Happiness:

    Live wholeheartedly.  Be surprised!
              Give thanks and praise!
              Then you will discover the fullness of your life. 
                                                                          - Brother David Steindl Rase
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    Euphoria is a blissful feeling that everything is coming up roses - 
            usually the feeling that comes when everything is going your 
            way and you are supremely contented with your  life.

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    Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.  Merriment  -
            it is the sunny side of existence.
                                                                                                - Lord  Bryon
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    The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.    
                            

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    I'm going to be happy today,
        Though the skies may be cloudy and gray
    No matter what may come my way
        I'm going to be happy today.
                                                   - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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    The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine  interest 
            in all the details of daily life and elevating them to an art.
                                                                                            -     William Morris
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    The joyful people are those who are generous and kind,
    The miserable people are those who are selfish & unforgiving.

    The problem solvers are those whose lives are powered by  faith & optimism.
    The problem people are those whose lives are drained by  doubts & pessimism.

    The winners are those who learn to take full responsibility for their actions.
    The losers are those who blame others for their failures.

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    A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
            of all other virtues
                                                                                                      - Cicero
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    Happiness Quotations:

    The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if your spontaneous 
           cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and
           speak as if cheerfulness were already  there.

    To feel brave, act as if you were brave, use all your will to that
            end and courage will very likely replace fear.

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     The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic-type person
           and the happy, normal person is the difference between get and
           give.

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      Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never
            cease to be entertained.
                                                                                                  - John Boswell
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      Happiness is like a potato salad  -  when shared with others - 
            it's a picnic.
           
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    Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is just out of grasp.
            But if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
                                                                                       - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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    Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
                                                                                              - Joseph W. Krutch
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    Life can be one satisfaction after another if we let it.
                                                                                                      - John Schindler
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    Happiness is intrinsic.  It's an internal thing.  When you build it
            into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

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    Nothing has to happen for me to feel good!  I feel good because
            I'm alive!  Life is a gift, and I revel in it.
                                                                                                - Tony Robbins
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           Happiness comes from counting our blessings, appreciating little things - a
    flower by a stream, seagulls circling over the ocean, laughter of little children,
    a call from a friend, a challenge met.  The "happiness quotes" above gives us
    some insights into the essence of happiness.  Happiness comes from celebrating
    the moment - not waiting for all our problems to be solved.  Happiness comes 
    from cultivating a thankful heart.   

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