#happines

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 it. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#contentment #happiness #inspirational #life #attitude

All happiness depends on courage and work. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ↗

— Greg Anderson

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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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

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Independence is happiness. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#death-and-dying #death-of-a-loved-one #sorrow #unhappiness #death

If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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