Happiness
Quotes - The Paradoxical Commandments
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The Paradoxical Commandments
People
are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love
them anyway.
If
you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do
good anyway.
If
you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed
anyway.
The
good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do
good anyway.
Honesty
and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be
honest and frank anyway.
The
biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest
men and women with the smallest minds.
Think
big anyway.
People
favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight
for a few underdogs anyway.
What
you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build
anyway.
People
really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help
people anyway.
Give
the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give
the world the best you have anyway.”
―
Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
“For
every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love
is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your
own.”
―
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“Folks
are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“Time
you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
―
Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
“It's
so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no
scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“Happiness
in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
―
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
“You
will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
―
Albert Camus
“The
Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth
without work.
Pleasure
without conscience.
Knowledge
without character.
Commerce
without morality.
Science
without humanity.
Worship
without sacrifice.
Politics
without principle.
From
a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on
March 20, 1925.”
―
Frederick Lewis Donaldson
“Happiness
is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Every
man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a
man cold when he is only sad.”
―
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“There's
nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a
sore stomach for the right reasons.”
―
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Count
your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
―
John Lennon
“Happiness
is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
―
Dalai Lama XIV
“If
more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a
merrier world.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Promise
Yourself
To
be so strong that nothing
can
disturb your peace of mind.
To
talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to
every person you meet.
To
make all your friends feel
that
there is something in them
To
look at the sunny side of everything
and
make your optimism come true.
To
think only the best, to work only for the best,
and
to expect only the best.
To
be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as
you are about your own.
To
forget the mistakes of the past
and
press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To
wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and
give every living creature you meet a smile.
To
give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that
you have no time to criticize others.
To
be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and
too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To
think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not
in loud words but great deeds.
To
live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so
long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
―
Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
“Attitude
is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice.
Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you.
Choose wisely.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“They
say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone
to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
―
Tom Bodett
“Take
responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“The
most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
―
Audrey Hepburn
