If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’ If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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Tell all my mourners To mourn in red- Cause there ain't no sense In my bein' dead. ― Langston Hughes

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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. – Confucius

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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. – Stacey Charter

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim

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It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. – L.M. Montgomery

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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. – Friedrich Schiller

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To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the : that is Hell. ― Jordan B. Petersoncause

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The only joy in the world is to begin. – Cesare Pavese

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