It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. — Epictetus

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I was lucky to spend so long on 'Blue Peter' and 'Newsround' and if you are a bit giddy, like I am, a bit daft, like I am, and you are the kind of person who makes lots of public mistakes, like I do, then it's sometimes hard for people to take me seriously. - Helen Skelton

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Do we need to wait until the next life to experience true happiness? Of course not; we can experience it now. By making that choice to be happy and optimistic, we can have a little bit of Heaven on Earth. ― Lindsey Rietzsch

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When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world. ― Gillian Duce

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All who joy would win Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin. ― George Gordon Byron,

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. – Marianne Williamson

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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. ― Betrand Russell

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. ― Mary Lou Retton

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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. ― Epicurus

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