“There is always something to be happy about.” -Author Unknown
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” -William R. Inge (William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)): as quoted in “The Reader’s Digest” (1983), Volume 123, page 79
“A happy life is built up of little clumps of violets noticed along the roadside.” -Author Unknown
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Cheerfulness
I’m glad the sky is painted blue
And the Earth is painted green
And such a lot of nice fresh air
All sandwiched in between.
By Author Unknown
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“You have it easily in your power to increase the total sum 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 (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Happiness is a choice.” -Barry Neill Kaufman (born 1942) at http://www.barryneilkaufman.com/
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“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” -Aeschylus (about 525 B.C.E. - about 456 B.C.E.): “Agamemnon,” 928
“When you seek happiness for others, you will find it for yourself.” -Lori Moreno
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“Being happy never goes out of style.” -Lily Pulitzer
“Happiness seems made to be shared.” [translation to English]
“Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé.” [original French]
-Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684): “Notes par Rochefoucauld”
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect; it just means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections.” -Author Unknown
“Happiness walks on busy feet.” -Kitte Turmell
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“It’s being so cheerful as keeps me going.” -Mona Lott’s catchphrase on “ITMA” (1939 - 1949), a BBC radio program; Mona Lott is a character portrayed by Joan Harben (1909 - 1953)
“Happiness will bring you good luck.” -Author Unknown: fortune cookie saying
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“Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.” -Jane Porter (1776 - 1850): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 298
“Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.” -John Sutherland Bonnell (1893 - 1992)
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“Life does not always meet our expectations, but that should not prevent us from seeking what happiness we can.” -Richard Parks: “Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge” (2006), reprinted in Rich Horton, editor: “Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007,” page 300
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“A lot of happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.” -Author Unknown
“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” -Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
“Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about puppies.” -Gene Hill (Gene Atkins Hill (1928 - 1997))
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“Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?” -Dinah Craik (Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock (1826 - 1887)): “A Woman’s Thoughts About Women” (1858), Chapter 10
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” -William R. Inge (William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)): as quoted in “The Reader’s Digest” (1983), Volume 123, page 79
“A happy life is built up of little clumps of violets noticed along the roadside.” -Author Unknown
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Cheerfulness
I’m glad the sky is painted blue
And the Earth is painted green
And such a lot of nice fresh air
All sandwiched in between.
By Author Unknown
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“You have it easily in your power to increase the total sum 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 (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“Happiness is a choice.” -Barry Neill Kaufman (born 1942) at http://www.barryneilkaufman.com/
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“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” -Aeschylus (about 525 B.C.E. - about 456 B.C.E.): “Agamemnon,” 928
“When you seek happiness for others, you will find it for yourself.” -Lori Moreno
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“Being happy never goes out of style.” -Lily Pulitzer
“Happiness seems made to be shared.” [translation to English]
“Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé.” [original French]
-Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684): “Notes par Rochefoucauld”
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect; it just means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections.” -Author Unknown
“Happiness walks on busy feet.” -Kitte Turmell
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“It’s being so cheerful as keeps me going.” -Mona Lott’s catchphrase on “ITMA” (1939 - 1949), a BBC radio program; Mona Lott is a character portrayed by Joan Harben (1909 - 1953)
“Happiness will bring you good luck.” -Author Unknown: fortune cookie saying
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“Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.” -Jane Porter (1776 - 1850): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 298
“Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.” -John Sutherland Bonnell (1893 - 1992)
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“Life does not always meet our expectations, but that should not prevent us from seeking what happiness we can.” -Richard Parks: “Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge” (2006), reprinted in Rich Horton, editor: “Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007,” page 300
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“A lot of happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.” -Author Unknown
“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” -Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
“Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about puppies.” -Gene Hill (Gene Atkins Hill (1928 - 1997))
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“Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?” -Dinah Craik (Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock (1826 - 1887)): “A Woman’s Thoughts About Women” (1858), Chapter 10
“Happiness is in the heart, not in circumstances or in things.” -Author Unknown
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “Holy Bible,” (King James Version (1611)), ‘The Book of Proverbs,’ chapter 17, verse 22
“Happiness is a direction, not a destination.” -Author Unknown
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” -Martha Washington (1731 - 1802)
“To me there is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow enormous benefits upon the world.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894)): “Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers” (1877): Essay 3: ‘An Apology for Idlers,’ page 131
“Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much.” -Channing Pollock (1880 - 1946)
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“How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the Earth has a brighter green . . . the flowers are more fragrant . . . and the Sun, Moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” -William Cowper (1731 - 1800): “Task,” book III, line 41
“True happiness consists in making others happy.” -Author Unknown
“Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.” -Author Unknown
Happiness: hap-pi-ness, ha-pē-nǝs, noun: A mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
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“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure, are by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
“Folks are generally as happy as they make up their minds to be.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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“The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object, of his being.” -David Hume (1711 - 1776): “The Philosophical Works of David Hume” (1826), volume 3: ‘Essays, Moral, Political and Literary,’ Part 1, essay 16: ‘The Stoic,’ page 167
“Cheerful people, the doctors say, resist disease better than glum people. In other words, ‘The surly bird catches the germ.’” -Author Unknown
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“Spread happiness; a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.” -Author Unknown
“We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.” [translation to English]
Ducimus autem
Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitæ,
Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.
[original Latin]
-Decimus Junius Juvenalis (also known as Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis or simply Juvenal (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 128)): “Satires” (early 2nd century), XII, 20
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))
“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
“Jumping for joy is good exercise.” -Author Unknown
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“I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so oneself.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.” -Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969): “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia” (2006) memoir book
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“The happiness of life . . . is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834): ‘The Improvisatore’ poem published in S. C. Hall, editor: “The Amulet for 1828”
“Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.” -William Dempster Hoard (1836 - 1918)
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“Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.): “Sovran Maxims” (English: “Sovereign Maxims” or “Principle Doctrines”), Number 28
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” -Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
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“The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
“Now and then, it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” -Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Dostrowitsky (1880 - 1918))
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“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “Holy Bible,” (King James Version (1611)), ‘The Book of Proverbs,’ chapter 17, verse 22
“Happiness is a direction, not a destination.” -Author Unknown
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” -Martha Washington (1731 - 1802)
“To me there is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow enormous benefits upon the world.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894)): “Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers” (1877): Essay 3: ‘An Apology for Idlers,’ page 131
“Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much.” -Channing Pollock (1880 - 1946)
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“How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the Earth has a brighter green . . . the flowers are more fragrant . . . and the Sun, Moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” -William Cowper (1731 - 1800): “Task,” book III, line 41
“True happiness consists in making others happy.” -Author Unknown
“Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.” -Author Unknown
Happiness: hap-pi-ness, ha-pē-nǝs, noun: A mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.
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“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure, are by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
“Folks are generally as happy as they make up their minds to be.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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“The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object, of his being.” -David Hume (1711 - 1776): “The Philosophical Works of David Hume” (1826), volume 3: ‘Essays, Moral, Political and Literary,’ Part 1, essay 16: ‘The Stoic,’ page 167
“Cheerful people, the doctors say, resist disease better than glum people. In other words, ‘The surly bird catches the germ.’” -Author Unknown
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“Spread happiness; a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.” -Author Unknown
“We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.” [translation to English]
Ducimus autem
Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitæ,
Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.
[original Latin]
-Decimus Junius Juvenalis (also known as Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis or simply Juvenal (about C.E. 55 - C.E. 128)): “Satires” (early 2nd century), XII, 20
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))
“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
“Jumping for joy is good exercise.” -Author Unknown
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“I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so oneself.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.” -Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969): “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia” (2006) memoir book
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“The happiness of life . . . is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834): ‘The Improvisatore’ poem published in S. C. Hall, editor: “The Amulet for 1828”
“Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.” -William Dempster Hoard (1836 - 1918)
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“Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.” -Epicurus (341 B.C.E. - 270 B.C.E.): “Sovran Maxims” (English: “Sovereign Maxims” or “Principle Doctrines”), Number 28
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” -Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
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“The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
“Now and then, it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” -Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Dostrowitsky (1880 - 1918))
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Do more of what makes you happy . . . like writing messages on foggy windows and on sandy beaches.
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“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” -Margaret Runbeck (Margaret Lee Runbeck (1900 - 1956)): “Time for Each Other” (1944)
“It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
True happiness is to no spot confined.
If you preserve a firm and constant mind,
’Tis* here, ’tis everywhere.
-John Huddlestone Wynne (1743 - 1788): “A General History of Ireland” (1772)
*’tis: it is
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“A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
“The greatest happiness is to be that which one is.” -Theodore Herzl (1860 - 1904)
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” -Hugh Downs (Hugh Malcolm Downs (born 1921)): as quoted in Roy B. Zuck: “The Speaker’s Quote Book: Over 4,500 Illustrations” (1997), page 185
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“A light heart lives long.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” -Helen Keller: “The Simplest Way to be Happy” (1933)
“The happiest people are the ones who make others happy.” -Author Unknown
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“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.” -William L. Phelps (William Lyon Phelps (1865 - 1943))
“What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day . . . and that makes me happy.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
“In whatever situation we are placed, our greater or less degree of happiness must be derived from ourselves. Happiness is in a great measure the result of our own dispositions and actions.” -Hannah Webster Foster (about 1758 - 1840)
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (also known simply as Colette (1873 - 1954))
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.” -Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804): “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics” (1785)
“Happiness is no laughing matter.” -Richard Whately (1787 - 1863): “Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Richard Whately” (1856)
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“If happiness truly consists in physical ease and freedom of care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.” -William Lyon Phelps (William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps (1865 - 1943))
“You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.” -Author Unknown
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“A single joy can scatter a hundred griefs.” -Author Unknown
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832): ‘Distichs’ as quoted in Edgar Alfred Bowring, translator: “The Poems of Geothe” (1853)
“Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.” -Alice Meynell (1847 - 1922)
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“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1788))
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” -William Morris (1834 - 1896)
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“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.” -Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.” -Lydia M. Child (Lydia Maria Child (born Lydia Maria Francis (1802 - 1880)))
“The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.” -John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892)
Affirmation: I choose happiness!
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“Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.” -Christopher Morley (Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957)): “Where the Blue Begins” (1922)
“The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
“Some pursue happiness, while others create it.” -Author Unknown
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“There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words: love and achievement . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.” -Theodor Reik (1888 - 1969): “A Psychologist Looks at Love” (1957), chapter 3, page 194
“Seek lifelong progress toward happierness.” -Arthur C. Brooks: ‘Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life,’ published in “The Atlantic” (2024) magazine
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“Your happiness is your gift to the world.” -Robert Holden
“Happiness is the atmosphere in which all things grow.” -Author Unknown
We are MFOL! . . . spread the merriment . . .
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“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” -Margaret Runbeck (Margaret Lee Runbeck (1900 - 1956)): “Time for Each Other” (1944)
“It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
True happiness is to no spot confined.
If you preserve a firm and constant mind,
’Tis* here, ’tis everywhere.
-John Huddlestone Wynne (1743 - 1788): “A General History of Ireland” (1772)
*’tis: it is
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“A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
“The greatest happiness is to be that which one is.” -Theodore Herzl (1860 - 1904)
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” -Hugh Downs (Hugh Malcolm Downs (born 1921)): as quoted in Roy B. Zuck: “The Speaker’s Quote Book: Over 4,500 Illustrations” (1997), page 185
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“A light heart lives long.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” -Helen Keller: “The Simplest Way to be Happy” (1933)
“The happiest people are the ones who make others happy.” -Author Unknown
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“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.” -William L. Phelps (William Lyon Phelps (1865 - 1943))
“What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day . . . and that makes me happy.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
“In whatever situation we are placed, our greater or less degree of happiness must be derived from ourselves. Happiness is in a great measure the result of our own dispositions and actions.” -Hannah Webster Foster (about 1758 - 1840)
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (also known simply as Colette (1873 - 1954))
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.” -Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804): “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics” (1785)
“Happiness is no laughing matter.” -Richard Whately (1787 - 1863): “Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Richard Whately” (1856)
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“If happiness truly consists in physical ease and freedom of care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.” -William Lyon Phelps (William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps (1865 - 1943))
“You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.” -Author Unknown
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“A single joy can scatter a hundred griefs.” -Author Unknown
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832): ‘Distichs’ as quoted in Edgar Alfred Bowring, translator: “The Poems of Geothe” (1853)
“Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.” -Alice Meynell (1847 - 1922)
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“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1788))
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” -William Morris (1834 - 1896)
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“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.” -Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.” -Lydia M. Child (Lydia Maria Child (born Lydia Maria Francis (1802 - 1880)))
“The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.” -John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892)
Affirmation: I choose happiness!
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“Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.” -Christopher Morley (Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957)): “Where the Blue Begins” (1922)
“The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
“Some pursue happiness, while others create it.” -Author Unknown
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“There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words: love and achievement . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.” -Theodor Reik (1888 - 1969): “A Psychologist Looks at Love” (1957), chapter 3, page 194
“Seek lifelong progress toward happierness.” -Arthur C. Brooks: ‘Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life,’ published in “The Atlantic” (2024) magazine
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“Your happiness is your gift to the world.” -Robert Holden
“Happiness is the atmosphere in which all things grow.” -Author Unknown
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