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    Habits are important. People form habits, but habits form futures. -Merrill E. DouglasWhy not have all your habits work for you and your goals? -Merrll E. DouglasBad habits are easy to form but hard to live with. Good habits are hard to formbut easy to live with. -AnonymousHabits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. -Chinese ProverbHappiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. -Franklin D. RooseveltThe essence of joy lies in the doing rather than in the result of the doing. There is a lifelong and solid satisfaction in any productive labor, manual or mental, which is not pushed beyond the limit of strength. -Charles W. EliotOf all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to him who does his work well, followed by a relaxing and refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day. -Lin YutangThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. -EpictetusWho loves not women, wine and song,Remains a fool his whole life long. -Attributed to Martin LutherHappiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door. -Charleton Ogburn,Jr.

    Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. -William HazlittThe joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by interva

    ls of absence. -Samuel JohnsonA man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. -Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe

    This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. -Thomas JeffersonThe ability to enjoy life is the greatest quality that a human being can have. .. If you are not enjoying life you are a burden to others. -Wayne Dyer

    Choose to live happy. -Wayne DyerYou need to look for silliness in books and laugh a lot. -Judy FreemanI believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, bestboth for the body and the mind. -Albert Einstein

    Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something

    to love and something to hope for. -Joseph AddisonOh, young man, hear me; live as you go along. Do not wait until you have reachedmy years before you begin to enjoy anything of this life. -Russell H. Conwell

    Look around and you'll agree that the really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the joyat hand. They're full or eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. -Norman Vincent PealeSometimes we are so busy adding up our troubles that we forget to count our blessings. -UnknownThe secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.-UnknownTo know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us,even in silence--this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. -Johann Wolfgan

    g von GoetheTrue contentment is the power of getting out of any situation all that there isin it. -G.K. ChestertonIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things. -Albert EinsteinPeople are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham LincolnThe man who deals in sunshine is the man who wins the crowds. He does a lot morebusiness than the man who peddles clouds. -Unknown

    The way to be happy is to make others so. -Robert G. IngersollThe foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his fee

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    t. -J. Robert OppenheimerMany persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -Helen KellerHappiness is more a state of health than of wealth. -Frank TygerIf you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't somethingclose at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy. -George Matthew AdamsHappiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. -Burton HillsHappiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. -AnonymousThe happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, andwe grow happier as we grow older. -William Lyon PhelpsTalk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. -Orison Swett MardenI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. -John Stuart MillA man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to findit. -George Moore

    Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. -Henri MatisseThe essence of happy living is never to find life dull, never to feel the ugly weariness which comes of overstrain; to be fresh, cheerful, leisurely, sociable,unhurried, well-balanced. It seems to me impossible to be these things unless wehave time to consider life a little, to deliberate, to select, to abstain. -Ar

    thur C. Benson

    The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. -Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThere is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort toscatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment. -Orison Swett MardenThe art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. -Henry Ward BeecherLove the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. -Marcus AureliusOne ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. -Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself

    . For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. -Martha Washington