"Most folks are about as happy as they
make up their minds to be."


Abraham Lincoln
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“Truth enters the mind so naturally, that hearing it for the first time feels simply like remembering it” - (Fontenelle) “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” - (Epicurus) “How can they say my life isn't a spectacular success? Have I not for all these many years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” - (Logan P. Smith) “Contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.” - (Author Unknown) “there are no wrong jobs, just the wrong person doing the wrong job.” - (Author Unknown) “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” - (Robert Fulghum) “Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.” - (Josh Billings). “If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap where everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart quickly.” - (Socrates) “Life in itself, is simply an opportunity to make it worth living” - (Author Unknown) “To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful than to be forty years old” - (O.W Holmes) “A tear dries quickly when it is shed for the troubles of others” - (Cicero) “What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.” - (French Proverb – Author Unknown) “We should try to be the parents of our future and not the children of our past” - (Miguel De Unamuno) “The first step towards conquering stress is to accept that it is created not by external events, but by how I deal with those events” - (Brahma Kumaris) “Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.” - (Dennis Prager) “Life is not a rehearsal” - (Rose Tremain) “When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.” - (Sam Lefkowitz) “There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.” - (Robert Brault) “If I view the anger of others as an expression of personal pain, my good wishes will flow and I can then respond with compassion.” - (Brahma Kumaris) “To have and not to give is in some cases, worse than stealing” - (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) “We never seem to recognise the immense incalculable value of our health, until we begin to lose it.” - (Author Unknown) “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names” - (J. F Kennedy) “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” - (Benjamin Franklin) “What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.” - (Julia Cameron) “Money will come when you are doing the right thing” - (Mike Phillips) “Follow your passion, and success will follow you.” - (Arthur Buddhold)
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