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“Like swimming riding writing or playing golf happiness can be learned.”
“Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more a...”
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.”
“Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires...”
“Build a little fence of trust Around today Fill the space with loving work And therein stay.”
“This is wisdom: to love wine beauty and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.”
“The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot " to let ...”
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.”
“The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.”
“From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs go...”
“To make a man happy fill his hands with work his heart with affection his mind with purpose his memory with useful knowledge his future with hope and his stomach with food.”
“For me happiness came from prayer to a kindly God faith in a kindly God love for my fellow man and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living but it...”
“If we could learn how to balance rest against effort calmness against strain quiet against turmoil we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.”
“Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
“True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
“May you have warmth in your igloo oil in your lamp and peace in your heart.”
“What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?”
“Let your boat of life be light packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures one or two friends worth the name someone to love and to love you a cat a dog enough to eat and enou...”
“To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars to be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have m...”
“Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.”
