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One
of the best ways to worship
God
is simply to be happy.
Traditional
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happiness - happiness
2 - happiness
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Those
who never sacrificed a present to a future good,
or a personal to a
general one, can speak of happiness
only as the blind do of colors.
Horace
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A
happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found;
for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to
make us happy.
Thomas Merton |
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The
art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging
to a
particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to
change its form. . .
happiness, like a child, must be allowed
to grow up.
Charles
L. Morgan
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Every
day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies
in
the love we have not given, the powers we have not used,
the
selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which,
shirking
pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary
Cholmondeley
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The
people who are unhappy when they are poor would be unhappy
if they
were rich, and they who are happy in a palace in Paris
would be happy
in a dug-out on the frontier of Dakota.
There are
as many unhappy rich people as there are unhappy poor
people.
Every heart knows its own bitterness and its own joy.
Not that wealth and what it brings is not desirable—
books,
travel, leisure, comfort, the best food and clothing,
agreeable
companionship—but all these do not necessarily
bring happiness and
may coexist with the deepest wretchedness,
while adversity and penury,
exile and privation
are not incompatible with the loftiest exaltation
of the soul.
John J. Ingalls |
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It is not
the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but
the kinship of
heart to heart and the way we look at the world.
Both
attitudes are within our power, so that people are happy
so long as
they choose to be happy, and no one can stop them.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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Happiness
is a present attitude--not a future condition.
Hugh
Prather |
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We
can make countless journeys to
find happiness, and engage in countless
strategies to rid ourselves of unhappiness,
but the key traveler on all the journeys
and the central player in all the strategies
is ourselves, and it is to ourselves we
always return. . . . We discover happiness
through making peace with ourselves and
the circumstances of our lives, no through
trying to escape from them, nor through
living in fantasies about the future.
Christina
Feldman
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We
act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements
of life, when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley |
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The
real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let
live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable
sin
is to be an unpleasant person.
Galen Starr Ross |
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Happiness is the greatest paradox in nature.
It can grow in any soil,
live under any conditions. It defies environment. The
reason for this
is that it does not come from without but from within. Whenever
you see people seeking happiness outside themselves, you can be sure
they have never yet found it.
Forman Lincicome |
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Someone
once asked me what I regarded as the three most important
requirements for happiness.
My answer was: “A feeling that you have
been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have
done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work;
and the ability to love others.”
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Happiness
in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.
Make it
the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose
chase,
and is never attained. Follow some other object,
and very possibly
we may find that we have caught
happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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When we
recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy,
that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home
can be surprisingly simple. We
have enormous power not to manipulate
the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Hugh
Prather |
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Every
morning when we wake up we’ve been given a wonderful
gift—another day of life—so let’s make the most of it.
No one
can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized
once
we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives.
This may be
a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating.
Be gentle with
yourself.
It will all unfold.
Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
Sarah
Ban Breathnach |
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius |
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Happiness
grows at our own firesides,
and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas
Jerrold |
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Begin
each morning by resolving to find something in the day to
enjoy.
Look into each experience which comes to you for some grain of
happiness.
unattributed |
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Happiness is only available with total
acceptance of who you are,
including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will
be there for you
when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot
achieve happiness
without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and
imperfections in a
positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from
unhealthy people,
ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with
interdependent,
pro-active ways of thinking and responding.
Lucinda Bassett |
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Why
should the search for happiness be only or essentially
material and mental?
Aren’t there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental
and the spiritual realms?
Robert Muller |
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No
matter what may be one's nationality, sex, age,
philosophy, or religion, everyone wishes either to
become or remain happy. Hence definitions of
happiness are interesting. One of the best was
given in my senior year at college by President
Timothy Dwight. "The happiest person is the
person who thinks the most interesting thoughts."
This definition places happiness where it
belongs--within and not without. The principle
of happiness should be like the principle of
virtue: it should not be dependent upon things,
but be a part of personality.
If the happiest person is the person who thinks the
most interesting thoughts, we are bound to grow
happier as we advance in years, because our minds have
more and more interesting thoughts. A
well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view
halfway up is better than the view from the base, and
it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
William Lyon Phelps |
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No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as
hollow as that of being told to
cultivate happiness. . . . Happiness is not a potato,
to be planted in mold, and tilled with manure.
Charlotte Bronte |
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"Take
my own father! You know what he said in his last
moments?
On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who had enjoyed a
better life. In spite of the dreadful pain, his face radiated
happiness,"
said Mother, nodding her head comfortably.
"Happiness drives
out pain, as fire burns out fire."
Mary Lavin |
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Henri Strendhal |
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The
necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all
liberty--
Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are
capable of.
John Locke |
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Do
not let a desire for wealth cause you to become so consumed by
your work that you prevent happiness for yourself and your
family
in the present moment. Happiness is foremost.
A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving
word,
a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which
create
happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness
in the
present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself
and those
around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and
your small
acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness
does not depend on wealth or fame.
Thich Nhat
Hanh |
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Happiness
is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will
avoid you, it will never come. But if you pay no
attention to it
and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against
your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett |
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There
is great happiness in not wanting, in not being
something, in not going somewhere.
J. Krishnamurti |
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Humankind is interdependent, and the happiness
of each depends
upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity
has to
learn today as the first and last lesson.
Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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For
the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign
indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself,
indeed so
brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy,
and that I was happy still.
Albert Camus |
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The foolish person seeks happiness in the
distance;
the wise grow it under their feet.
James Oppenheim |
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