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May you find great value in these quotes by Zora Neale Hurston.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Related topics: Cynical Religion
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
- Henry David Thoreau
I want to know all Gods thoughts;
all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase
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
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
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
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
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
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- 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.
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
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
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Happy Birthday!
Today is YOUR day to Dance Lightly With Life.
Have a wonderful day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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