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• There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

  Alfred de Musset

  Sad, Sorrow, Remember

  "Le Saule" by Alfred de Musset,

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• The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

  Woody Allen

  Happiness, Appreciate, Liking Someone

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• We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happiness, Time, Peaceful

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.33, Tharpa Publications US

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• The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.

  James H. Austin

  Spiritual, Attitude, Sadness

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press

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• A good rule for mental conduct—think whatever it makes you truly happy to think.

  Susan Gregg

  Thinking, Truly Happy

  Susan Gregg (2007). “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Short Meditations”, p.17, Penguin

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• choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

  Chris Prentiss

  Knowing, Benefits, Situation

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.43, BookBaby

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Gratitude, Grateful, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• Happiness isn't about what happens to us - it's about how we perceive what happens to us. It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have, and start enjoying what we do have, our lives can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier. The time to be happy is now.

  Lyn Peters

  Challenges, Wish, Negative

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• One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

  Gerald Brenan

  Happiness, Country, Art

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• ... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Kindness, Book

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• If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

  Brenda Ueland

  Marriage, Children, Home

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Spring, Gay

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• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Money

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Positive Thinking, Positivity

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• Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

  Horace

  Enjoy, Present Day

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• In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  New Year, Past, Years

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• Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones!

  Mike Dooley

  Positive Thinking, Monday Morning, Thoughts Become Things

  FaceBook post by Mike Dooley from Sep 10, 2016

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• Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

  Gautama Buddha

  Short Life, Appreciate, Best Short

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• Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Stress, Choices, Happiness Is A Choice

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• Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Mean, Years

  "Uncle Vanya". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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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

  Hurt, People, Skins

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• The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.

  Nhat Hanh

  Fear, Trying, Looks

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Song, Time

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Penguin

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• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Laughter, Concern For Others

  "The Fall". Book by Albert Camus, 1956.

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• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

  Robertson Davies

  Happiness, May, Matter

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