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“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do." “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” "Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful." "A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.” "The major cause of stress is the inability of people to discover their true nature. Discover your gifts, follow them and you will never feel stressed.” "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry". "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed". "Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it." "You don't get ulcers from what you eat, you get them from what's eating you". "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." "Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine." "Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one." "If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” "Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties." "Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas." "Never limit your view of life by any past experience." "If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." "When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die." "If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things." "Live to the point of tears." "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself." "Great anger is more destructive than the sword." "The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations." "You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are." "Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually". "The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done." "There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." “Don't envy for what people have and you don't. You have something they don't have.” “Where we have strong emotions, we are liable to fool ourselves.” “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world opens up to you.” “Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.” “Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness”. “The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.” “Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.” “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” “Don't worry, be happy.” “The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.” - Johnette Napolitano “Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude toward us.” “Your life is what your thoughts make it.” “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” “Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.” “Dreams are necessary to life.” “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.” “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” “Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.” “Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.” “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” “Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It’s a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don’t have. It’s so simple, yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.” “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” “Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future; concentrate the mind on the present moment.” “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as a great adventure.” “Why not learn to enjoy the little things? There are so many of them.” “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” “I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” “It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see.” “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” “You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching and love like it is never going to hurt.” “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” “Sometimes the most urgent thing you can do is take a complete rest.” “Take control of your emotions, before your emotions take control of you.” “Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.” “There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” “There are three ingredients to the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.” “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” “Be a fountain, not a drain.” “It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” “Life must be lived as play.” “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” “Worry is a thin stream of fear tricking through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” “Everywhere you go, take a smile with you.” “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
“Happiness is: looking in the mirror and liking what you see.” “Laughter is an instant vacation.” “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of the mind than on outward circumstances.” “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” “There is no wealth but life.” “Feelings change – memories don’t.” “When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.” “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.” “The truth is we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain and pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.” “Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.” “It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.” “Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one.” “The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” “Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.”
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head; beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” “Only a few things are really important.” “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.” “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” “The only thing to fear is, fear itself.” “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s an experience.” “I love life because what more is there?” “Every [person] should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.” “Happiness is not a destination; it is a method of life.” “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” “The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.” “There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” “And when it rains on your parade, look up instead of down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” “A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.” “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” “Worry bankrupts the spirit.” “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” “Happiness is a state of activity.” “Always do right – it will gratify some and astonish the rest.” “Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.” “To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.” “When anger rises, think of the consequences.” “Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.” “Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.” “If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.” “Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” “The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” “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.” “Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” “In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It is the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.” “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, then change the way you think about it.” “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” “Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.” “Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.” “There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follow like a shadow that never leaves”. “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” “Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.” “Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.” “It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.” “My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.” “A [person] who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” “Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” “Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.” “To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.” “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” “Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.” “You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.” “Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.” “Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” “It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.” “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, not this thing nor that, but simply growth.” “We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.” “Sometimes we just need to write down the good and bad things in life. If you believe in yourself the good things will double and the bad things will not.” “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” “What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.” “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” “If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.” “A smile will gain you ten more years of life.” “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a person can alter his life by altering his attitude.” “You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.” “It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” “I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass...it’s about learning to dance in the rain”. “The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.” “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” “At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.” “It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” “If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children.”
“Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it’s good to be silly at the right moment.” “Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.” “When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.” “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” “Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” “It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.” “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” “Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.” “To be happy, make other people happy.” “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.” “Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” “The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now.” “The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.” “Only passion, great passion, can elevate the soul to great things.” “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every [person] has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all [people] have some.” “Feelings are not controlled by one's circumstances. Feelings are determined by how one choose to respond to various situations and events.” “If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.” “The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” “Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” “There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” “Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.” “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” “We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...” “It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.” “Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” “It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.” “Love never fails, character never quits, and dreams do come true.” “May the best things that happened to you in [last year] be the worst things that happen to you [this year].” “The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every [person] has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all [people] have some.” “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness.” “If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy." “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." “Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which the world affords." “Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.” “We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.” “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness.” “A Definition of Jealousy: The illogical consideration that someone else's success equates to your failure."- Kenneth H. Kaufman “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.” “Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.” “Think of all the beauty still around you and be happy” “Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” “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.” “Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” “Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.” “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” “We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.” “None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.” “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.” “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only for wallowing in.” “The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.” “What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.” “A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.” “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.” “Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.” “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius" “Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.” “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” “What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.” “Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.” “Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.” “An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.” “Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow." “Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” “Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.” "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” “Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything and everyone you have right now, and then, somehow got everything back again.” “The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of a plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.” “The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” “Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.” “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 has achieved the second". “It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." “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. Happiness comes from celebrating the moment - not waiting for all our problems to be solved. Happiness comes from cultivating a thankful heart.” “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.” “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” “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.” “In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive”.
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.” “There is nothing more attractive than a happy person.” “The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.” “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
“The basic thing that everyone wants is 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.” “The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.” “Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” “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.” “The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” “Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom in life” “None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy” “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues” “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” “Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or how low down you are – but on the direction in which you are tending”
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” - John D. Rockefeller III “What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.” - Arthur Schopenhauer “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” - Charles Dickens “One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” - Sigmund Freud
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.” HAPPINESS LIES IN THE JOY OF ACHIEVEMENT: Happiness is a byproduct. You cannot pursue it by itself. You were built to conquer your environment, solve problems, and achieve goals.You'll find no real satisfaction or happiness in lifewithout obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. Happiness is in activity. It's a running river not a stagnant pond.Happiness is not in having or being, it's in doing something you love. The secret of happiness is in having something to do. Click here to return to the BeHappy101.com homepage
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