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{
"text": "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.",
"author": "Dr. Seuss"
},
{
"text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.",
"author": "Sylvia Plath"
},
{
"text": "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get",
"author": "W. P. Kinsella"
},
{
"text": "I've got nothing to do today but smile.",
"author": "Simon and Garfunkel"
},
{
"text": "Happiness [is] only real when shared",
"author": "Jon Krakauer"
},
{
"text": "Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.",
"author": "Bette Midler"
},
{
"text": "It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.",
"author": "Lucy Maud Montgomery"
},
{
"text": "Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.",
"author": "Orhan Pamuk"
},
{
"text": "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a",
"author": "Haruki Murakami"
},
{
"text": "Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.",
"author": "Stephen Chbosky"
},
{
"text": "I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.",
"author": "Alexandre Dumas"
},
{
"text": "I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.",
"author": "David Henry Hwang"
},
{
"text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "All happiness depends on courage and work.",
"author": "Honoré de Balzac"
},
{
"text": "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"text": "I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.",
"author": "Jane Austen"
},
{
"text": "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"text": "I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.",
"author": "Jonathan Safran Foer"
},
{
"text": "Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.",
"author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky"
},
{
"text": "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.",
"author": "George Washington Burnap"
},
{
"text": "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"text": "And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,",
"author": "Edward Lear"
},
{
"text": "Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.",
"author": "Charlotte Bronte"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.",
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
},
{
"text": "One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.",
"author": "Rita Mae Brown"
},
{
"text": "I'd far rather be happy than right any day.",
"author": "Douglas Adams"
},
{
"text": "Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.",
"author": "Guillaume Apollinaire"
},
{
"text": "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.",
"author": "Robert Frost"
},
{
"text": "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"text": "Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"text": "Ester asked why people are sad.",
"author": "Paulo Coelho"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.",
"author": "Pat Conroy"
},
{
"text": "The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "Name one hero who was happy.\"",
"author": "Madeline Miller"
},
{
"text": "Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.",
"author": "Daniel Keyes"
},
{
"text": "There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.",
"author": "G.K. Chesterton"
},
{
"text": "The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.",
"author": "Carrie Jones"
},
{
"text": "It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life",
"author": "Henrik Ibsen"
},
{
"text": "Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "Whoever is happy will make others happy.",
"author": "Anne Frank"
},
{
"text": "I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.",
"author": "Elizabeth Gilbert"
},
{
"text": "The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.",
"author": "Jennifer Niven"
},
{
"text": "Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens",
"author": "Tony DeLiso"
},
{
"text": "I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.",
"author": "Charles Bukowski"
},
{
"text": "Laughter is poison to fear.",
"author": "George R.R. Martin"
},
{
"text": "I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.",
"author": "Drew Barrymore"
},
{
"text": "A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.",
"author": "Jodi Picoult"
},
{
"text": "People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.",
"author": "Dany Laferrière"
},
{
"text": "With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,",
"author": "Max Ehrmann"
},
{
"text": "Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called \"All the Things That Could Go Wrong.",
"author": "Marianne Williamson"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.",
"author": "Eleanor Roosevelt"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.",
"author": "Daphne Du Maurier"
},
{
"text": "Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.",
"author": "Karl Lagerfeld"
},
{
"text": "Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.",
"author": "Katherine Mansfield"
},
{
"text": "Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.",
"author": "Louisa May Alcott"
},
{
"text": "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"text": "You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.",
"author": "Martha Washington"
},
{
"text": "And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.",
"author": "J.D. Salinger"
},
{
"text": "That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!",
"author": "Bill Watterson"
},
{
"text": "A thing of beauty is a joy forever.",
"author": "John Keats"
},
{
"text": "I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.",
"author": "Audrey Hepburn"
},
{
"text": "I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.",
"author": "Jonathan Safran Foer"
},
{
"text": "I am very happy",
"author": "Sri Chinmoy"
},
{
"text": "The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.",
"author": "C.S. Lewis"
},
{
"text": "A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.",
"author": "Edith Wharton"
},
{
"text": "I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.",
"author": "J.D. Salinger"
},
{
"text": "I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.",
"author": "John Barrowman"
},
{
"text": "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"text": "Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...",
"author": "susan polis schutz"
},
{
"text": "Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure",
"author": "Arthur Schopenhauer"
},
{
"text": "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"text": "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.",
"author": "Sarah Addison Allen"
},
{
"text": "Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.",
"author": "Daisaku Ikeda"
},
{
"text": "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.",
"author": "Oprah Winfrey"
},
{
"text": "My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"text": "Why Not You?",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.",
"author": "Gordon B. Hinckley"
},
{
"text": "You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.",
"author": "Melissa de la Cruz"
},
{
"text": "All who joy would win",
"author": "George Gordon Byron"
},
{
"text": "Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.",
"author": "Stephen Richards"
},
{
"text": "Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.",
"author": "Gregory David Roberts"
},
{
"text": "those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.",
"author": "Alex Flinn"
},
{
"text": "Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.",
"author": "Charlotte Brontë"
},
{
"text": "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.",
"author": "Dalai Lama XIV"
},
{
"text": "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.",
"author": "Anne Frank"
},
{
"text": "Happy girls are the prettiest",
"author": "Audrey Hepburn"
},
{
"text": "Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.",
"author": "Joanne Harris"
},
{
"text": "Success is getting what you want..",
"author": "Dale Carnegie"
},
{
"text": "There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.",
"author": "Stendhal"
},
{
"text": "There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.",
"author": "Shannon Hale"
},
{
"text": "My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.",
"author": "Alexander McCall Smith"
},
{
"text": "You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.",
"author": "Mary Tyler Moore"
},
{
"text": "They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.",
"author": "Leo Tolstoy"
},
{
"text": "Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"text": "Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"text": "We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.",
"author": "Dave Ramsey"
},
{
"text": "Love is too precious to be ashamed of.",
"author": "Laurell K. Hamilton"
},
{
"text": "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"text": "My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?",
"author": "Fyodor Dostoevsky"
},
{
"text": "Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections",
"author": "Bob Marley"
},
{
"text": "Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.",
"author": "Thomas Hardy"
},
{
"text": "Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.",
"author": "Françoise Sagan"
},
{
"text": "Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.",
"author": "Dalai Lama XIV"
},
{
"text": "I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.",
"author": "Gillian Flynn"
},
{
"text": "Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.",
"author": "Thich Nhat Hanh"
},
{
"text": "I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes",
"author": "Jeremy Aldana"
},
{
"text": "We're all golden sunflowers inside.",
"author": "allen ginsberg"
},
{
"text": "The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.",
"author": "Carlos Castaneda"
},
{
"text": "One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"text": "Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"text": "Memory is the happiness of being alone.",
"author": "Lois Lowry"
},
{
"text": "People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!",
"author": "C. JoyBell C."
},
{
"text": "You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.",
"author": "Elizabeth Gilbert"
},
{
"text": "Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.",
"author": "Hafez"
},
{
"text": "When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.",
"author": "Stephen Richards"
},
{
"text": "There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.",
"author": "Jodi Picoult"
},
{
"text": "Is anyone anywhere happy?",
"author": "Sylvia Plath"
},
{
"text": "There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.",
"author": "Katerina Stoykova Klemer"
},
{
"text": "Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.",
"author": "Ben Carson"
},
{
"text": "It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.",
"author": "Edgar Allan Poe"
},
{
"text": "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.",
"author": "Simone Elkeles"
},
{
"text": "it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.",
"author": "Daisaku Ikeda"
},
{
"text": "You must be the best judge of your own happiness.",
"author": "Jane Austen"
},
{
"text": "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.",
"author": "Andy Rooney"
},
{
"text": "I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.",
"author": "J.D. Salinger"
},
{
"text": "It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ",
"author": "Lucille Ball"
},
{
"text": "Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.",
"author": "Orson Scott Card"
},
{
"text": "But what was there to say?",
"author": "Arundhati Roy"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"text": "The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)",
"author": "Thich Nhat Hanh"
},
{
"text": "Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.",
"author": "Wil Zeus"
},
{
"text": "The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.",
"author": "James Matthew Barrie"
},
{
"text": "To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.",
"author": "Julian Barnes"
},
{
"text": "These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world:",
"author": "Buddha"
},
{
"text": "So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.",
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
},
{
"text": "When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.",
"author": "Roy T. Bennett"
},
{
"text": "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.",
"author": "James Oppenheim"
},
{
"text": "I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.",
"author": "Tana French"
},
{
"text": "right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.",
"author": "Maggie Stiefvater"
},
{
"text": "The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.",
"author": "Stephen Richards"
},
{
"text": "Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.",
"author": "Marie Rutkoski"
},
{
"text": "Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?",
"author": "Markus Zusak"
},
{
"text": "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.",
"author": "Doris Mortman"
},
{
"text": "Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.",
"author": "Chili Davis"
},
{
"text": "If I had a camera,\" I said, \"I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.\"",
"author": "Nicole Krauss"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling",
"author": "Tony DeLiso"
},
{
"text": "There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.",
"author": "C.S. Lewis"
},
{
"text": "Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.",
"author": "Jacqueline Kelly"
},
{
"text": "My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.",
"author": "Dan Howell"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.",
"author": "Aeschylus"
},
{
"text": "I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.",
"author": "L. Frank Baum"
},
{
"text": "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"text": "For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.",
"author": "Marilyn Monroe"
},
{
"text": "My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.",
"author": "Michael J. Fox"
},
{
"text": "And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.",
"author": "Ally Carter"
},
{
"text": "Happiness only real when shared.",
"author": "Christopher McCandless"
},
{
"text": "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.",
"author": "H.L. Mencken"
},
{
"text": "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.",
"author": "Dale Carnegie"
},
{
"text": "A flower blossoms for its own joy.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"text": "dear today,",
"author": "Nina LaCour"
},
{
"text": "In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.",
"author": "Dieter F. Uchtdorf"
},
{
"text": "Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.",
"author": "Amit Ray"
},
{
"text": "Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.",
"author": "Roman Payne"
},
{
"text": "The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.",
"author": "Alessandra Torre"
},
{
"text": "The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.",
"author": "Betrand Russell"
},
{
"text": "Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"text": "I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.",
"author": "Matt Smith"
},
{
"text": "You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.",
"author": "Wayne Dyer"
},
{
"text": "Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.",
"author": "Thomas Mann"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.",
"author": "Gregory David Roberts"
},
{
"text": "Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.",
"author": "Stephen Richards"
},
{
"text": "You can't buy happiness",
"author": "Kurt Cobain"
},
{
"text": "She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.",
"author": "Cassandra Clare"
},
{
"text": "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.",
"author": "Jane Austen"
},
{
"text": "Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"text": "I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.",
"author": "Sylvia Plath"
},
{
"text": "If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.",
"author": "Melody Carstairs"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.",
"author": "E.L. Konigsburg"
},
{
"text": "There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.\"",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"text": "With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. ",
"author": "Haruki Murakami"
},
{
"text": "Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?",
"author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.",
"author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"
},
{
"text": "Laugh, and the world laughs with you;",
"author": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox"
},
{
"text": "Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is a state of activity.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"text": "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.",
"author": "Robert Anthony"
},
{
"text": "If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.",
"author": "Peter Deunov"
},
{
"text": "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.",
"author": "Victor Hugo "
},
{
"text": "Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"text": "If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?",
"author": "Jennifer E. Smith"
},
{
"text": "He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"text": "Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.",
"author": "Epicurus"
},
{
"text": "I do not think we have a \"right\" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.",
"author": "Marlene Dietrich"
},
{
"text": "When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.",
"author": "Stephen Richards"
},
{
"text": "Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.",
"author": "Stephen R. Covey"
},
{
"text": "That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....",
"author": "Charles Schultz"
},
{
"text": "A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.",
"author": "Dale Carnegie"
},
{
"text": "Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.",
"author": "Stephen Richards"
},
{
"text": "You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.",
"author": "Henrik Ibsen"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.",
"author": "Sri Ramana Maharshi"
},
{
"text": "Even in Siberia there is happiness.",
"author": "Anton Chekhov"
},
{
"text": "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.",
"author": "Willa Cather"
},
{
"text": "When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.",
"author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"
},
{
"text": "Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.",
"author": "Margaret Atwood"
},
{
"text": "To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.",
"author": "Pearl S. Buck"
},
{
"text": "We have to go. I'm almost happy here.",
"author": "Orson Scott Card"
},
{
"text": "Judgment is a negative frequency.",
"author": "Stephen Richards"
},
{
"text": "Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.",
"author": "Irving Berlin"
},
{
"text": "Come clean with a child heart",
"author": "Carl Sandburg"
},
{
"text": "Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.",
"author": "Mark Strand"
},
{
"text": "Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.",
"author": "Orson Scott Card"
},
{
"text": "Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.",
"author": "Shannon L. Alder"
},
{
"text": "Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.",
"author": "Stephen Richards"
},
{
"text": "It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"text": "The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"text": "Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!",
"author": "Jane Austen"
},
{
"text": "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.",
"author": "Socrates"
},
{
"text": "The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.",
"author": "Amit Ray"
},
{
"text": "Your success and happiness lie in you.",
"author": "Helen Keller"
},
{
"text": "You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.",
"author": "Steve Maraboli"
},
{
"text": "Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within",
"author": "Helen Keller"