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Happiness
«Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.»
«Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Courage,
Happiness,
Strength
| Keywords:
gotten, humor, sense of humor, somehow
«Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Happiness,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
dedicate, Peace of, peace of mind
«Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.»
«Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.»
«Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
disguise, elegant
«Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasures most dear.»
«Don?t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it?s often been said that money won?t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it?s a lovely thing to have around the house.»
«Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Relationships,
Social service
| Keywords:
at large, consciously, cultivate, deliberately, render, steadily, unconsciously