1.
Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Oscar Wilde
Be authentic; no one else is you.
2.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
'The most certain means of determining what lies ahead is to bring it into being.'
3.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary, Queen of Scots
To show compassion to all, to appreciate many and cherish a select few, to be desired and treasured by those we adore, is undoubtedly the closest we can come to bliss.
4.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl
'No matter what, a person always retains the right to decide how they will react in any situation; having the power to choose their own path.'
5.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
Winston Churchill
To achieve true contentment and security, it is advantageous to cultivate several interests that are genuinely enjoyed.
6.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus
You do not build bravery through contentment in your associations every day. You cultivate it by enduring hard times and confronting adversity.
7.
The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.
Wilma Mankiller
8.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
The key to contentment is to appreciate what you have while others are measuring their misfortunes.
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Authentic contentment derives from the gratification of tasks executed admirably, the enthusiasm of creating something novel.
10.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Charles Dickens
Delight in joy when it arrives.
11.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
Contentment is derived from savoring what we have rather than amassing it.
12.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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If you have "needing money" in your vibration, then you will keep attracting needing money. You have to find a way of being happy NOW, feeling good NOW, and being in joy NOW, without the money, because those great feelings are how you will feel with the money. Money doesn't bring happiness - but HAPPINESS BRINGS MONEY.
Rhonda Byrne
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Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Jim Rohn
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
17.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
18.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
20.
Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.
Tal Ben-Shahar
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That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Bill Watterson
22.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
A. A. Milne
23.
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
Tina Turner
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
25.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
26.
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Henny Youngman
27.
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Jane Fonda
29.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
31.
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now.
How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today,
but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
35.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin
36.
There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.
Ryan Adams
37.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
Carl Jung
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
42.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
A. A. Milne
43.
I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
Joey Ramone
44.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
45.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois
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When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.
Nino Rota
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
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Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
Tom Brady