Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
- Kamran Hamid
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation.
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Live wild, life free, live as master of your own fate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Concern for man and his fate must always form
the chief interest of all technical endeavors.
Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed
in a prior state of existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not going to be able
to operate our Spaceship Earth
successfully nor for much longer
unless we see it as a whole spaceship
and our fate as common.
It has to be everybody or nobody.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually
there would be no wars and no poverty.
I have made myself personally responsible
for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
- Anais Nin
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi 
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
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
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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