Happy Life Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• [It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Reading, Ideas

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Christ, Crosses

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

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• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

  Jacques Prevert

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Waste, Negative

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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, Self, Giving

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• Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Positive, Courage, Motivation

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 02, 2015

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• When you work; don't expect your talent to be discovered. Work hard because it makes you happy.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Hard Work, Talent

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• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Loneliness, Play, Envy

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.

  Genghis Khan

  Long, Mind, Enemy

  "The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy". Book by Michael Prawdin, p. 224, 1940.

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• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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• No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reflection, Roots, Perfection

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• Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Love Is, Feelings

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• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

  Groucho Marx

  Positive, Good Morning, Happiness

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• Live with the objective of being happy.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, Happy, Diversity

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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• It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Miscarriage, Missing, Missing It

  "Two mothers, two lost babies" by Rachel Stockley, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2009.

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• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

  Dalai Lama

  Needs, Attention, World

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• Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

  Dalai Lama

  Prayer, Built

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• If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Wife, Car, Motorcycle

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• There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Unhappy, Way

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2012

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• They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

  Horace

  Travel, Sea, Sky

  "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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• A happy life is a life for others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life Is

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• Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Giving Up, Night

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• It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy.

  Bern Will Brown

  Life, Circles, Arctic

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