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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

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Dyer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy!
Anne Frank

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette Davis

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
Mildred Barthel

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
Mark Twain

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
HH the Dalai Lama:

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another’s eyes
Marquerite Blessington

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

…happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it…
Aristotle

Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
Epicurus

Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it’s too late. The time for happiness is today not tomorrow.”
Paul H Dunn

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours…. never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness…. Your success and happiness lie in you…. The great enduring realities are love and service…. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying “Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.” If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too
Harrison Ford

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever …. Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
Aristotle

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

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

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Helen Keller

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.”
Arthur Rubinstein

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Ann Radcliffe

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
John Barrymore

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
Charles W. Eliot

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

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

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
Malcolm Forbes

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.
Norman Lear

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.
Carl Jung

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson

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Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon – deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
William James

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Norman Vincent Peale

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
Dr. Robert Anthony

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..
Marie Beyon Ray

You are what you think about all day long.
Dr. Robert Schuller

Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret – curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Walt Disney

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Charles Victor Cherbuliez

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

The reality of life is that your perceptions – right or wrong – influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
Roger Birkman

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dr Wayne Dyer

When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D Roosevelt

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali

Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude towards that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.
Norman Vincent Peale

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.
Harold B Melchart

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had no feet.
Ancient Persian Saying

Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.
Anonymous

Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.
Zig Ziglar

Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A Edison

Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
Earl Shoaf

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities – always see them, for they’re always there.
Norman Vincent Peale

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.
Brian Tracy

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.
Ralph Lauren

“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.”
Steven J Ross

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

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