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• There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

  Dalai Lama

  Sleep, Men, Doors

  "Your Emotional Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Live a Life of Abundance". Book by Gary Rubin, p. 173, 2013.

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• If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Running, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.11, Sounds True

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• But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happy, Imagination, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

  Joyce Meyer

  Happy, Keys, Selfishness

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• Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Responsibility, Peaceful

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace

  "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

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• My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.

  Nicki Minaj

  Happy, Rapper, Color

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• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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• Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

  Rajneesh

  Happy, Hurt, People

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• When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

  Pope Francis

  Happy, Pride, Impossible

  twitter.com. July 24, 2014.

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• My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Why Not, Rich

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 29, 2012

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• Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed.

  Wayne Dyer

  Happy, Law, Miracle

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 27, 2011

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• One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

  Robert Holden

  Jobs, Mirrors, Important

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.181, Hay House, Inc

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Patience, Powerful

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• I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

  Lady Gaga

  Happy, Being Alone, Rich

  "Lady Gaga raps, rages and shares sex dreams at iTunes Festival" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2013.

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• The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Selfish, Winning

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• The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Practice, Long

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• It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?

  Dalai Lama

  Love You, Sacrifice, Compassion

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• It's ever so much more satisfying to get into a blissful place and attract a blissful person and live blissfully hereafter than to be in a negative place and attract a negative partner and then try to get happy from that negative place.

  Esther Hicks

  Relationship, Trying, Negative

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• According
  to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the
  development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the
  happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being.
  Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to
  dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever
  obstacles we face.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Insecurity

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• You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Order, Joy

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• The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Mean, Happy Life

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• No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Happiness, Healing, Positivity

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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