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"Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness." - Author Unknown |
"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date." - Dale Carnegie |
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice." - Ben Johnson |
"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved." Maurice Chevalier (born Sept 12, 1888)
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"Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed."
Goethe |
In this world there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle--this everyone knows, yet no one acts accordingly.
Lao-Tzu |
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
"May you live the life of your dreams with the energy of your inner courage... May you fulfill the purpose of your birth with the illumination of courage and become steeped in divine contentment."
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The Summer Man
When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere. Just ask him. If you listen, he’ll tell you how he got there. How he forgot where he was going and then he woke up.
If you listen, he’ll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel and dreamt of being perfect. And then he’ll smile with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn’t perfect. We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had. - Don Draper, Mad Men |
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. - Unknown
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"You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark." -Wallace Arnold
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“Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.” - Chuck Palahniuk |
It is worth another read.
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” - Author Unknown |
“I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.” - Zelda Fitzgerald |
"Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers." ~Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
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“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
John Lennon |
“The time to relax most is when you don’t have time for it.” -Sydney J. Harris
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Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don’t need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don’t have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with those things right now.
Thich Nhat Hanh |
It is only the souls that do
not love that go empty in this world. Robert Hugh Benson |
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there." -John Buchan (1875-1940)
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Cultivating contentment is crucial to maintaining peaceful coexistence. Dalai Lama (on Twitter. Yes, it's the real Dalai Lama or one of his assistants)
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