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
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
Create your future from your future not your past.
- Werner Erhard
What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
You are perfect exactly the way you are.
- Werner Erhard
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Begin building the future through
"conversation for possibility."
- Werner Erhard
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard
Life is empty and meaningless
because life is empty and meaningless.
- Werner Erhard
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- 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
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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 blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
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
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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
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
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
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
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
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
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
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
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
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
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