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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.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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The art of being happy lies in the power of
extracting happiness from common things.
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Henry Ward Beecher |
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Even the most mundane objects
are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we
are alive is the biggest wonder of all.
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David Fontana,
Zen |
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We have no more right to consume
happiness
without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Those only are happy who have their minds
fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of
others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit,
followed not as a means, but as itself the ideal end. Aiming thus at
something else, they find happiness by the way. |
John Stuart Mill |
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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.
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Ramona L. Anderson |
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If you want others to be happy, practice
compassion. If
you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Dalai Lama |
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Absolutely, God's allies will have nothing
to fear, nor will they grieve. They are those who believe and lead a
righteous life. For them happiness in this life, and in the Hereafter.
Such is God's inviolable law. This is the true triumph. |
Quran |
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Happiness is a continuous
creative activity.
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Baba Amte
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There is no stress in the world, only
people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them.
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Wayne Dyer |
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Hope is itself a species of
happiness, and, perhaps, the
chief happiness which this world affords. |
Samuel Johnson
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There is no such thing as happiness, for an
unfulfilled wish causes pain, and attainment brings only satiety. |
Schopenhauer |
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Happiness, if attainable at all, must be
sought by reflection upon things that are remote from the impressions of
sense.
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Plotinus |
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As for happiness, it is not something
you experience, it's something you remember.
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Mark Twain
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Learn to enjoy every minute of
your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of
yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is
the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family.
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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Earl Nightingale
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I look on that man as happy, who, when
there is question of
success, looks into his work for a reply.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
