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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle 
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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