Wisdom
• If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy
• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. -Jacques Prévert
• Goals are dreams with deadlines. -Diana Scharf Hunt
• If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? -Sydney J. Harris
• To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. -George MacDonald
• How glorious it is and also how painful to be an exception. -Alfred de Musset
• Tap into people’s dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won’t lift a finger. -Thomas Friedman
• Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. -Mill Smith
• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. -Wayne Dyer
• The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude. -Robert H. Schuller
• All saints have past and all sinners have a future. -Anton Chekhov
• Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry by day, and too sleepy to worry at night.
• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. -Bernard Meltzer
• The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down. –Ed McBain
• You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. -Frank Crane
• Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. -H.W. Byles
• A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. -Bernard de Fontenelle
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison
• On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. -William R. Inge
• Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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