Happiness 365 1-1 Flashcards

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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

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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

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Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

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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

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If you speak or act with an evil thought, pain follows you. If you speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows you, like a shadow that never leaves you.

Buddha

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

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

Aristotle

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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

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5
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Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

Francesca Reigler

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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

Herman Cain

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara De Angelis

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The US Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness.

You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Aristotle

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Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Dale Carnegie

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

Epictetus

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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

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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 been opened for us.

Helen Keller

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10
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He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

Chinese Proverbs

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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.

It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Ashley Montagu

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