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If thou wilt make a man happy,
by Epicurus

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

Related topics: Values Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Inspirational Positive Simple Simplicity Simple-Living Simple-Life

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus PHOTO

Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus

 

If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras

Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

I offer my body, my mind
and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O Infinite Creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose
to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work,
and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered
to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
- Omar Khayyam

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable.
They little know what radical change are possible through prayer.
Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses,
to be used by Thee, O infinite creator,
in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me.
I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult
or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin

We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley

The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot


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