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Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation.
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
To state the facts frankly
is not to despair the future nor indict the past.
The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies
and gives a faithful accounting
to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
- John F. Kennedy
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events,
based upon the value, meaning and function they hold.
Do not allow obligation or immediacy
to bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Fortify yourself with contentment,
for it is an impregnable fortress. -
- Epictetus
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Who can suffer while roses bloom
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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