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August 2, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was officially adopted by the
United States Congress (on July 4th of that year, John Hancock and Charles
Thompson had signed draft copies). The document's author, Thomas Jefferson
(third U. S. president, 1801-1809). Jefferson once observed, "Our
happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us
but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and
freedom in all just pursuits." Mr. Jefferson, like the following men
and women, was right.
On Happiness…
"This is happiness: to be dissolved
in something complete and great."
Willa Cather
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the
wise grows it under his feet."
James Oppenheimer
"If people are suffering they must look within
themselves. Happiness is not something ready-made that can be given to you. It
comes from your own actions."
The Dalai Lama
"Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise."
Suzanne Curchod Necker
"Earth’s crammed with heaven."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woes."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Advice for Enjoying the
Game of Life
"It
takes courage to be happy."
Mark Van Doren
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is
slavery."
Maxim Gorky
"I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do
and do the best I can. That is enough."
Maria Schell
"To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose
yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy."
J. B. Priestly
Happiness Is . . .
"Happiness is a habit.
Cultivate it."
Elbert Hubbard
"To forget oneself is to be
happy."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"True happiness is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy cause."
Thomas Jefferson
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the
achievement of one’s values."
Ayn Rand
"Happiness is activity."
Aristotle
"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."
Bernard de Fontenelle
"Happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends
upon what you think."
Dale Carnegie
"Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind, not a state of body."
Douglas Fairbanks
This page was
written and compiled by Cris Freeman, Psy.D
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