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Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
Chinese proverb |
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer |
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide |
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While fate permits, live happily; life speeds on with hurried steps, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Seneca |
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The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers |
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Remember that happiness is a way to travel not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman |
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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard |
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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 which has opened for us.
Helen Keller |
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci |
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Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell |
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy |
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Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
Anonymous |
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Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
H. Jackson Brown |
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes |
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Alexander Solzenitsyn |
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Walters |
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills |
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Happiness is not the absence of problems, but rather the ability to deal with them. Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others cause happiness whenever they go.
Bits & Pieces |
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Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art of pursuit, followed not as a means but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.
Anonymous |
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Kindness is seldom thrown away, and there is no creature so much below another but that he may have it in his power to return a good office.
Aesops Fables |
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
Sophocles |
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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show any human being, let me do it now. Let me not deter or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Stephen Grellett |
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand |
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Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
Rosalynn Carter |
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched anothers life. Barbara Walters |
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
George Herbert |
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How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespea
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer |
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The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard |
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The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins?
Edgar Alan Poe |
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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather |
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There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller |
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites |
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb |
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Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
Earl of Beaconsfield |
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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Herman Melville |
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To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler |
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Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown |
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As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard |
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay
Leon J. Suenes |
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He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Confucius |
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Do all the good you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
John Wesley |
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire |
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Take pleasure in living and life will make you happy.
Author Unknown |
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The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Jones |
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It is not so much, the hours that tell, as the way we use them. Life must be measured rather by depth than by length: By thought and action, rather than
by time.
Auebury |
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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch |
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