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“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

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“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

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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

“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

“أبدا تحنّ إليكم الأرواح=ووصالكم ريحانها والراحُ

وقلوب أهل ودادكم تشتاقكم=وإلى لذيذ لقائكم ترتاح

وارحمة للعاشقين تكلفوا=ستر المحبة والهوى فضاح

بالسر إن باحوا تباح دماؤهم=وكذا دماء البائحين تباح

وإذا همُ كتموا تحدث عنهمُ=عند الوشاة المَدمع السفاح

وبدت شواهد للسقام عليهمُ=فيها لمشكل أمرهم إيضاح

خفَضَ الجناح لكم وليس عليكمُ...للصب في خفض الجَناح جُناح

فإلى لقاكم نفسه مرتاحة...وإلى رضاكم طرفه طمّاح

عودوا بنور الوصل من غسق الجفا...فالهجر ليل والوصال صباح

وتمتعوا فالوقت طاب لقربكم...راق الشراب ورقّت الاقداح

صفّاهمُ فصفو له فقلوبهم...في نورها المشكاة والمصباح

يا صاح ليس على المحبّ ملامة...إن لاح في أفق الوصال صباح

لا ذنب للعشاق إن غلب الهوى...كتمانهم فنمى الغرام فباحوا

سمحوا بأنفسهم وما بخلوا بها...لما دروا أن السماح رباح

ودعاهمُ داعي الحقائق دعوة...فغدوا بها مستأنسين وراحوا

ركبوا على سنن الوفا ودموعهم...بحرٌ وحادي شوقهم ملاّحُ

والله ما طلبوا الوقوف ببابه...حتى دُعوا وأتاهم المفتاح

لا يطربون لغير ذكر حبيبهم...أبدا فكل زمانهم أفراح

حضروا فغابوا عن شهود ذواتهم...وتهتّكوا لما رأوه وصاحوا

أفناهمُ عنهم وقد كشفت لهم...حُجُب البقا وتلاشت الأرواح

فتشبهوا إن لم تكونوا مثلهم...إن التشبه بالكرام فلاح”
― الامام السهروردى