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"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."

- William H. Sheldon (1898 - 1977)
American psychologist and numismatist

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"Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else."

- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
English Novelist

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"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."

- Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903 - 1998)
American pediatrician

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“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church....a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.”

― Charles R. Swindoll

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"I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you."

- J. Kenfield Morley (1838 - 1923)
a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor

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"It seems clear even in these years of squalid degradation that having risked death for the sake of honor is better than having risked dishonor for the sake of life."

- Mark Helprin, American Novelist (1947)

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"it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work."

- Jim Collins (1958)
American business consultant

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Another way of saying "Life is 10% what happens to us, 90% how we handle it" Charles Swindoll

"We will all experience disappointments and crushing events somewhere along the way, setbacks for which there is no "reason"; no one to blame. It might be a disease; it might be injury; it might be an accident; it might be losing a loved one; it might be getting swept away in a political shake up; it might be getting shot down over Vietnam and thrown into a POW camp for 8 years. What separates people, James Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulties, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life."

- Jim Collins (1958)
American business consultant

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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

- James Stockdale (1923 - 2005)
American Naval Officer and Prisoner of War

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[flipp]

To be happy,you just have to forget what's gone,appreciate what still remains and look forward to the good that is coming next.

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"There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.""

- Jim Collins, from his book, Good to Great (1958)
American business consultant

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