Habit
is stronger than reason.
- George Santayana (1863-1952), writer
Make
happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
- Chinese proverb (Confucianism)
Success
is not the key to happiness. Happiness
is the key to success. If you love
what you are doing, you will be successful.
In
order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing
this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy
because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
- Andre Gide
While
the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with
winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
The
grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers
Remember
that happiness is a way of travel—not a destination.
Get
happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard
When
one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- Helen Keller
As
a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Happiness
is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
Be
happy with what you have while working for what you want.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
When
what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
- Malcolm Forbes
Happiness
is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond your grasp,
but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A
man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
- Alexander Solzenitsyn
Happiness
is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all
outward circumstances.
- J. Donald Walters
Happiness
is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Some
people cause happiness wherever they go; others cause happiness whenever they
go.
- Bits & Pieces
Those
only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own
happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on
some art of pursuit, followed not as a means but as itself an ideal end.
Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.
- John Stuart Mill
Many
people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but
because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
- William Feather (1889-1981), writer
The
most divine art is that of healing. And
if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well
as the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part of it is
suffering.
The
physician should know the invisible as well as the visible man.
There is a great difference between the power which removes the invisible
causes of disease and that which merely causes external effects to disappear.
- Paracelsus
If
you would live in health, be old early.
The
heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.
- Blaise Pascal
Think
not that a man will so much as lift up his little finger on your behalf, unless
he sees his advantage in it.
- Jeremy Bentham
Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
History
is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon
If you continue to live in the past your life is history.
History does not teach fatalism.
These are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through
determinism and opens up new roads. People
get the history they deserve.
- Charles De
Gaulle
No man has a good enough memory to make a
successful liar.
- Abraham
Lincoln
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
- Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
If
you are wise,
you will mingle one thing with the other
not hoping without doubt,
not doubting without hope.
- Seneca
Never
deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer
I
believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in
every stage of life, from cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and
young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for
superiority. Every human being
compares itself in its own imagination with every other round about it, and will
find some superiority over every other, real or imaginary, or it will die of
grief and vexation.
- John Adams, 1777
What
others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply
tinge what we think of ourselves.
- Paul Valery
The
10 Commandments of Human Relations
1. Speak to people.
2. Smile at people.
3. Call people by name.
4. Be friendly and helpful.
5. Be cordial.
6. Have a genuine interest in
people.
7. Be generous with praise.
8. Be considerate of the feelings
of others.
9. Be thoughtful of the opinions of
others.
10. Be alert to give service.
- John C. Maxwell, The Power of Influence,
Honor Books
Ever
since my youth I have been inspired whenever I contemplate the Nile, the
river-god my ancestors worshipped. The
Nile flows on indifferent to mere events. It
carries a message from the heart of Africa, our common home.
It brings life to all who live near its banks.
It contributes its water to the Mediterranean and the great civilizations
which surround its shores. And
ultimately it flows and merges with all the world’s oceans which link every
continent and all people of our planet. To
me, it is a constant reminder of our common humanity.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General
of the United Nations
True
joy, happiness, and self-respect come from doing, achievement, and the inner
knowledge that you did your best; not from the praise of others.
- Nicholas Pratt
Always
remember that no matter how successful you are or what you achieve, there are
others who are going through difficult times and dealing with serious problems
in their lives. Be a quiet role
model.
Humility
is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child, and
wisdom the grandchild.
- Stephen R. Covey
Don’t let success go to your head or failure go to your heart.
A sense of humor reduces people and problems to their proper proportions.
I
have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears
into something bearable, even hopeful.
- Bob Hope, Entertainer
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