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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”

“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.”