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• I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Happiness, Believe, Personality

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• I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and energy comparing my talents with those of others.

  Laurence Boldt

  Time, Unique, Energy

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.330, Penguin

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• ... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

  Mary McCarthy

  Children, America, Virtue

  Mary McCarthy (1993). “Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938”, Harcourt

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• There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

  Candace Bushnell

  Memories, Firsts, Wake Up

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• This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Divorce, Lunch, Dumb

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• You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.

  Carlos E. Asay

  New Year, Fate, Long

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• I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  New Year, Believe, Goal

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• How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

  William Ellery Channing

  Happiness, Success, Congratulations

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• When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• May I invite you to rise to the great potential within you. But don't reach beyond your capacity. Don't set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. Don't feel guilty or dwell on thoughts of failure. Don't compare yourself with others. Do the best you can, and the Lord will provide the rest. Have faith and confidence in Him, and you will see miracles happen in your life and the lives of your loved ones.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  New Year, Goal, Miracle

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• The best motivation for anyone-including employees-is to hear or see our name as often and in as many places as possible. Our name is the most potent sound we can hear and see. If you want to motivate someone put their name up in lights and/or sing it from the rooftops!

  Vicki Donlan

  Motivation, Light, Names

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• You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

  Ernie Banks

  Happiness, Attitude, Trying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Peace, Spring

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• To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

  Bobby Bowden

  New Year, Years, Want

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• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Running, Trying, Adequacy

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (October 14, 1929), as quoted in "Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections" edited by Alice Kimball Smith (p. 136), 1995.

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• ... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

  Rebecca West

  Laughter, Guarantees That, Mind

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Happiness, Believe, Needs

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• Some days are simply meant for playing.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happiness, Positivity

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.10, Conari Press

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• Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

  Mark Coleman

  Nature, Simplicity, Contentment

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• The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Happiness, Charity, Habit

  "Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day".

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• Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

  Ding Ling

  Happiness, Struggle, Storm

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• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Happiness, Men

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• Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

  John Stuart Mill

  Happiness, Heart, Confusion

  Autobiography ch. 5 (1873)

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• Love is trembling happiness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Happiness, Passion

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• Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Dog, Mistake

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