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The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy you have only yourself to blame.
David E. Bresler
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
Rosalia Castro
Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
Joseph Conrad
Some pursue happiness others create it.
Anonymous
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.
Kathleen Tierney Andrus
I am my own heaven and hell!
J. C. F. von Schiller
I am responsible for my own well-being my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.
Kathleen Tierney Andrus
If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If people are suffering then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.
The Dalai Lama
Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.
Chinese Proverb
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
George du Maurier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene
No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain
If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.
Charles B. Newcomb
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.
Isaac Watts
He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.
Friedrich Klopstock
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
Charles W. Eliot
Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
Grenville Kleiser
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you want to change you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that isn't it?
Katharine Hepburn
Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a conscious choice not an automatic response.
Mildred Barthel
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see like a rainbow or feel like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin
When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.
John Ruskin
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.
Eric Hoffer
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.
Jacques Audiberti
Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Fulton J. Sheen
Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.
Cathy Better
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Henry Miller
If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.
Saint Augustine
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
John Donne
Freedom means choosing your burden.
Hephzibah Menuhin
You have to take it as it happens but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
Old German proverb
A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto
They have rights who dare defend them.
Roger Baldwin
Make good use of bad rubbish.
Elizabeth Beresford
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Some leaders are born women.
Geraldine Ferraro
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
Josiah Royce
Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.
Elbert Hubbard
Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
Joan Lunden
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Napoléon Bonaparte
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