Independence is Happiness!
July 6, 2005
BE HAPPY ZONE
By Lionel Ketchian
"Independence is Happiness." - Susan B. Anthony
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go." - Martha Washington
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Ben Franklin
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln
"Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven." - John Milton
"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life." - Leo Buscaglia
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." - Mark Twain
"The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." - Peyton Conway March
"To fill the hour -- that is happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
"Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!" - Anne Frank
"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge --broad, deep knowledge --is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low." - Helen Keller
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think." - Dale Carnegie
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus (55 - 135) Greek philosopher
"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Norman MacEwan
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." - Sophocles
Our next Happiness Club meeting will be on Thursday, July 21, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. The presentation will be "Happiness Is Power!" The meeting will be held at the Sullivan Independence Hall, Fairfield. Looking forward to seeing you. Admission is free; everyone is welcome. Come on down, meet some great people and share the joy!
Lionel Ketchian is the founder of the Happiness Club, a Happiness Coach, and can be reached at PrintLRK@aol.com. The Web site is www.HappinessClub.com.