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HAPPINESSSo what if I feel unhappy at times. I don't need 100% happiness to have an enjoyable, fulfilling life. I can tolerate occasional feelings of unhappiness. At any moment, I can generate happy feelings by choosing to appreciate what I currently have in my life. The more I Take care of...Enjoy...Love...Share...Judge with understanding...Take pride in...Cherish...Admire...Give thanks for...Increase the value of what I have, the happier I'll be. Happiness isn't just a feeling. It is a decision...a choice...an attitude. "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." (Mildred Barthel) "They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." (Allan K. Chalmers) "The secret of happiness is something to do." (John Burroughs) "To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin." (Lord Byron) "Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." (Dale Carnegie) "In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?" (Leslie Caron) "Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted." (Deepak Chopra) "Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy." (Stuart Cloete) "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) "To fill the hour -- that is happiness." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world." (Epictetus) "If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires." (Epicurus) "A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness." (Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle) "There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier." (Benjamin Franklin) "Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it." (Harold S. Geneen) "Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living." (Haim Ginott) "If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness." (Oliver Goldsmith) "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." (Roy Goodman) "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) "Happiness requires problems…" (H. L. Hollingworth) "Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past." (Doug Horton) "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." (Vernon Howard) "The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour." (Sir James Jeans) "To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity." (Samuel Johnson) "If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't." (Charles "Tremendous" Jones) "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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." (Carl Jung) "It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy." (Immanuel Kant) "My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy." (Holly Ketchel) "I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense." (Coretta Scott King) "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." (Frederick Koenig) "Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness." (Lao-Tzu) "I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude." (Bruce Lee) "The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity." (Lucian) "Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." (Og Mandino) "Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness." (Don Marquis) "Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind." (Daphne Du Maurier) "Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get." (Bernard Meltzer) "Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will." (Dan Millman) "If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are." (Charles De Montesquieu) "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self." (Iris Murdoch) "Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others." (A. Nielsen" "Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself." (Plutarch) "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." (Marcel Proust) "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." (Agnes Repplier) "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." (Jim Rohn) "The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it." (Richard Rohr) "Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best." (Theodore I. Rubin) "Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition." (Arthur Rubinstein) "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." (Rabbi H. Schachtel) "Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned." (Boris Sokoloff) "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon) "Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness." (Source Unknown) "The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion." (Source Unknown) "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." (Denis Waitley) "Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake." (J. Donald Walters) "Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing." (Lilian Eichler Watson) "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing." (William Butler Yeats) "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) "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier." (Margaret Young) "Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself." (James Van Der Zee) "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." (James Oppenheim) "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life,whenall we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." (Charles Kingsley) "You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance." (Lavetta Sue Wegman) "One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything.Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom." (Gerald Brenan) "The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus." (Billy Graham) "In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy." (Karl Reiland) "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." (Dalai Lama) "If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all." (Jim Fiebig) |