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May you find great value in these Dispositions quotes and sayings.
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
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
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
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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 really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- 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
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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.
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
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- 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
Fortify yourself with contentment,
for it is an impregnable fortress. -
- Epictetus
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
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
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- 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
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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
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
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
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