FINDING HAPPINESS Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of…
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SIX PHASES OF A PROJECT 1. Enthusiasm and Happiness About the Great Idea 2. Disillusionment 3. Panic 4. Search for the Guilty 5. Punishment of the Innocent 6. Praise, Honors and Great Joy for the…
THE LIGHT OF HAPPINESS Happiness has no reason. It is not to be found in the facts of our lives, but in the color of the light by which we look at the facts.
ENDYMION A thing of beauty is a joy for ever Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams,…
WHO IS HAPPY? An English newspaper asked this question: "Who are the happiest people on earth?" These were the four prize-winning answers: A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child…
TWELVE RULES FOR HAPPINESS I. Live a Simple Life -- Be temperate in your habits, avoid self-seeking and selfishness. Let simplicity be your key. II. Spend Less Than You Earn -- Cultivate frugality, prudence and…
PRESCRIPTION FOR UN-HAPPINESS 1. Make little things bother you: don't just let them, MAKE them! 2. Lose your perspective of things, and keep it lost: Don't put first things first. 3. Get yourself a good…
LEARN IT EARLY The art of happiness, like that of bicycling, should be learned as early as possible. The balance, the unconscious poise, the effortless adjustment, do not come naturally to those who have never…
TOPS The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo
HAPPINESS makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost
A MIND TO BE HAPPY Abraham Lincoln said, "I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
INDIRECT JOY How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
GOETHE ON JOY Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
FINDING HAPPINESS It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier
STRATEGY FOR HAPPINESS I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill
THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. Douglas Jerrold
SIGN NEAR HIGHWAY REPAIRS The road to happiness is always under construction.
THE FULL VALUE OF JOY Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, we must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain
JOY/SORROW Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. Richter
IT FOLLOWS Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. J. M. Barrie
