So I fell a little behind... "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

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"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

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Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

 Sherry Rothfield

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"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

 Ingrid Bergman

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Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.

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There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

 Gelett Burgess

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For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

 Fernandez de Andrada

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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

 Robert Brault

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Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

 unknown

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Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

 William H. Sheldon

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I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.

 J. Kenfield Morley (I think this can be adapted to also include a husband)  ¶ 4/04/2006 06:22:00 AM