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• If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Wife, Car, Motorcycle

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• [It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Reading, Ideas

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Blessing, Secret

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Be Mature (James): Growing Up in Christ”, p.145, David C Cook

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• Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Waste, Negative

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• Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Life, Good Morning, Happy

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• I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

  Russell Baker

  Adversity, Thank God, Unhappy

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• No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reflection, Roots, Perfection

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• Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.

  Genghis Khan

  Long, Mind, Enemy

  "The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy". Book by Michael Prawdin, p. 224, 1940.

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Loneliness, Play, Envy

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Live with the objective of being happy.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, Happy, Diversity

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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• Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Peaceful, Mind

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• Believing in yourself is essential to creating lasting change and a happy life.

  Tara Stiles

  Believe, Lasting Change, Creating

  Tara Stiles (2014). “Make Your Own Rules Diet”, p.52, Hay House, Inc

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• I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Thinking, Special

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• To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Happiness, Self, Giving

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• The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Christ, Crosses

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

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• There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Unhappy, Way

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2012

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• Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

  Dalai Lama

  Prayer, Built

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• They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

  Horace

  Travel, Sea, Sky

  "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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• It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy.

  Bern Will Brown

  Life, Circles, Arctic

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• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

  Dalai Lama

  Needs, Attention, World

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• A happy life is a life for others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life Is

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• When you work; don't expect your talent to be discovered. Work hard because it makes you happy.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Hard Work, Talent

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• Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Friendship, Enemy, Friendly

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• We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

  Julianne Moore

  People, Enjoy, Hopefully

  Source: collider.com

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