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		PART IV “There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”—Kahlil Gibran “Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.”—Kahlil Gibran “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a matter of traveling.”—James Runbeck “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.”—James Openhelm “Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.”—Buddha ”Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”—Victor Borge “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”—William Blake “Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open.”—John Barrymore “The best remedy for anger is delay.”—Brigham Young “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”—Joseph Addison “If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.”—Henry Elliot “The human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”—Mark Twain “The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.”—Anonymous “Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”—Albert Schweitzer “Life is too important to take seriously.”—Oscar Wilde “There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.”—Paul Rudnick “Comedy is tragedy plus time.”—Carol Burnett “There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.”—Kathe Kolliwitz “I was never less alone than while by myself.”—Edward Gibson “May you live all the days of your life.”—Jonathon Swift “The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.”—Publilius Syrus “If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”—Bertrand Russell “Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”—Bertrand Russell “A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”—George Santayana “One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.”— Lew Wallace “And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs.”—Ella Wheeler Wilcox “My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.”—J. Brotherton “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”—Buddha “One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.”—Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.”—Sara Teasdale “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”—Agnes Repplier “Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.”—Jean Paul Richter “When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.”—Ferdinand Hodler “Make the most of yourself that is all there is to you.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson “If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.”—Emily Dickinson “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.”—Anne Dillard “The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”—Martha Washington “A smile is curve that sets everything straight.”—Anonymous "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."—Meister Eckhart “Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”— Aristotle "If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good."—Dr. Seuss "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."—Plato "As long as you live, keep learning how to live."—Seneca "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."—Emily Dickenson "All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."—Anonymous "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."—Anne Frank "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."—Lin Yutang "Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy."—Charlie McCarthy "Punctuality is the thief of time."—Oscar Wilde "True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get outăyou must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."—Henry James "How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward."—Spanish proverb "Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."—Zen saying "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."—Will Durant “No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.”—Thomas Fuller “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”—Marcel Proust "Patience is the key to paradise."—Turkish proverb "The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."—Goethe “Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”—Charles Caleb Colton “Learn to smile, get the habit of it; learn to sing, make it also a habit; and you will be surprised how much brighter it makes the world, not only to others, but to yourself! The smile and the song lessen the burdens and light up the way.”—Anonymous “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone”—Coco Chanel “Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when you pursue it is always beyond your grasp, but, which, when you sit down may alight upon you.”—Nathaniel Hawthorne “Self-pity in its early stages is a snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”—Maya Angelou “We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.”—Luciano de Crescenzo “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”—Mahatma Gandhi “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a flying: and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow maybe dying: Carpe Diem Seize the Day”—from Dead Poets Society "and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."—Anais Nin ”Happiness is a state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”—Ayn Rand ”Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.”—Bertha Damon ”A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”—Bette Davis ”No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”—Helen Keller ”When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”—Helen Keller ”The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.”—Marcelene Cox "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."—Buddha "The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."—James Matthew Barrie Part I    Part II    PART III    PART V [ Read about and Order Be Happy! ] BE HAPPY!

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