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“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

“They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

“All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.”

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.”

“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.”

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

“Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”