Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All successful people men and women are big dreamers.
They imagine what their future could be,
ideal in every respect,
and then they work every day toward
their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
My diary is a mirror telling the story of a dreamer who,
a long long time ago went through life the way one reads a book.
- Anais Nin
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want,
but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
Imagine...
- John Lennon
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
Can you imagine a life with no fear?
What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
- Max Lucado
Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
- Sheri Rosenthal
In art, the hand can never execute anything
higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
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
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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
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
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
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 is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
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
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
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
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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