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“Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.”

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Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

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Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.”

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Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.”

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Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.”

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Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”

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Author:Romare Bearden

“Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635

“Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.”

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Book:Lovingkindness

Source: Lovingkindness

“Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.”

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Author:Amit Ray

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

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Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.”

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Book:Juliette

Source: Juliette

“America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.”

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Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.”

Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

“I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.”

Knows Happiness Joy Lying My Own Enjoyed Selfishness

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”

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Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

“If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.”

“Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn