There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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May the blue bird of happiness fly up your nose. ~Chinese Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. ~Swedish Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work. ~Barbara La Marr
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For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
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A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. ~James Redfield
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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