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We enjoy including wonderful quotations throughout the site. We know that many
of you love to ponder on them further, so we're placing them all here on these pages,
and will add the new ones each month. Choose a group to read related quotes:


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  Nathaniel Hawthorne   "Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit quietly,
  may alight upon you."
  Bennett Wong   "Most people would rather be right than happy."
  John Stuart Mill   "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so."
  Arthur Schoppenhauer   "The most general survey shows that the foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."
  Bertrand Russell   "To be happy in the world, it is necessary to feel oneself to be part of the stream of life flowing from
  the first germ to the remote and unknown future."
  Marcus Aurelius   "Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life."
  M. Seligman   "Being positive buoys people into a way of thinking that aims to detect not what is wrong, but what is right."
  M. Seligman   "When the sequence of feeling a positive emotion, expressing it, eliciting a positive emotion in another,
  and then responding back goes awry, the music that supports the dance of love and friendship is   interrupted."
  Thich Nhat Han   "People deal too much with the negative, what is wrong...why not try and see positive things, to just
  touch those things and make them bloom."
  Stephen Covey   "Between the stimulus and response is a space. In this space lies our freedom to choose our response.
  In these choices lie our growth and our happiness."
  Kitaro Nishida   "If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater   happiness than this."
  Oscar Wilde   "Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex."
  G.K. Chesterton   "The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly."
  Eleanor Roosevelt   "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
  Ethel Perry Andrus   "We learn the secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention
  to something outside ourselves."
  Kahlil Gibran   "There are those who give joy, and that joy is their reward."
  Surrealist Proverb   "When reason is away, smiles will play."
  Epicurus   "Of all the things that wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession
  of friendship."
  Helen Keller   "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with
  the heart ."
  Julia Cameron   "The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
  French Proverb   "Gratitude is the heart's memory."
  James Dent   "A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing and the lawn mower is broke."
  Sam Keen   "Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge   "Summer has set in with its usual severity."
  Agnes Repplier   "A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense."
  Ben Williams   "Inside every dog is a puppy longing to climb on to your lap."
  Helen Thomson   "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
  Charles M. Schulz   "Happiness is a warm puppy."
  Rudyard Kipling   "Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching."
  Gene Hill   "Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies."
  Ambrose Beirce   "The most affectionate creature in the world is a puppy."
  Edith Wharton   "My little puppy-a heartbeat at my feet."
  Ben Williams   "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
       
     

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