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March
Prescription For Total Happiness:
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enought to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
-Johann von Goethe
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.
-Stephen Saint Vincent Benet
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It is hard to believe a man is telling you the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place
-H.L. Mencken
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Everything changes but change itself.
-John F. Kennedy
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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
-Michael Evans
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Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.
-Harriet Lerner
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things hoped for.
-Epicurius
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Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
-Anon.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
-Florence Scovel Shinn
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Too many people overvalue what they are and undervalue what they are not.
-Malcolm Forbes
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard
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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
-Henry Stimson
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If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might of been, you will ignore what is.
-Anon.
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Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught that.
-Rabbi Harold Kushner
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There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put a marker up on the site.
-Sydney Harris
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Having spent the better part of my life trying to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
-Anon.
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
-Erich Fromm
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Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
-Harry A. Hopf
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Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
-Pythagoras
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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.
-Allan K. Chalmers
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
-Otto Von Bismarck
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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
-Rabbi H. Schachtel
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