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  1. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”- Buddha
  2. “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” -Unknown
  3. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”-  Albert Camus
  4. “If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.        If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.” – Chinese Proverb
  5. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
  6. “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” -Stacey Charter
  7. “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”- Dale Carnegie
  8. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”-  Lucille Ball
  9. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh
  10. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
  11. “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 Keonig
  12. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
  13. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
  14. “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 Stuart
  15. “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”- Seneca
  16. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”- Robert A. Heinlein
  17. “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley
  18. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”- Mahatma Gandhi
  19. “The only joy in the world is to begin.”- Cesare Pavese
  20. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”- Oscar Wilde
  21. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
  22. “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon”- Winnie the Pooh
  23. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”- Herman Cain
  24. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius
  25. “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.”- Anthony de Mello
  26. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”- Dalai Lama
  27. “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 that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
  28. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”- Aristotle
  29. “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”- Seneca
  30. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”- Marcel Pagnol
  31. “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.” – Joseph Addison
  32. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”- George Burns
  33. “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  34. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”- Epictetus
  35. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” L.M. Montgomery
  36. “Happiness is acceptance.” Unknown
  37. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”- James M. Barrie
  38. “We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.” – Dalai Lama
  39. “Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”- Dr. Robert Anthony
  40. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” Aesop
  41. “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”- Seneca
  42. “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?- Albert Einstein
  43. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”- Bertrand Russell
  44. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
  45. “Happiness is a state of activity.”- Aristotle
  46. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
  47. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”- Confuciu
  48. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” Arthur Schopenhauer
  49. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  50. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”- Douglas Adams

 

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