Writing and
Discussion Prompts
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Which is your
favorite quote
and why?
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What does the
quote mean to
you?
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How does the
quotation tie in
to what we've
studied and
discussed?
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[How] can you
apply this quote
to your life, so
that your life
becomes a little
richer?
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True
happiness is not attained through
self-gratification, but through fidelity to
a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
The greatest happiness
is to transform one's
feelings into
actions. Germaine de Stael
Happiness lies in the
absorption in some vocation
which satisfies the soul.
Sir William Osler
One must never look for
happiness: one meets it by
the way.-- Isabelle Eberhardt
To be happy, drop the words
'if only,' and substitute
instead the words 'next
time. --Dr. Smiley Blanton
Happiness is the by-product
of living a good life.
Aristotle
To have joy one must share
it - Happiness was born a
twin. Lord Byron
Happiness
can be defined, in part at
least, as the fruit of the
desire and ability to
sacrifice what we want now
for what we want eventually.
Stephen Covey
Real happiness is
cheap enough, yet how dearly
we pay for its
counterfeit.-- Hosea Ballou
To make a man happy,
fill his hands with work. --
Frederick E. Crane
Happiness is a
function of accepting what
is.--Werner Erhard
I am more and more convinced
that our happiness or
our unhappiness depends far
more on the way we meet the
events of life than on the
nature of those events
themselves. Karl Wilhelm Von
Humboldt
A grateful heart is a happy
heart. L. Walkup
Very little is needed to
make a happy life. Marcus
Aurelius
The greatest happiness
is to transform one's
feelings into
actions. Germaine de Stael
Happiness [is]
prosperity combined with
virtue. -- Aristotle
What we call the secret of
happiness is no more
a secret than our
willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
Happiness resides not
in possessions and not in
gold, the feeling of
happiness dwells in the
soul. Democritus
The secret of happiness
is finding love through
giving love, rather than
through receiving it. J.
Donald Walters
The secret of happiness
is being grateful for the
hurts one receives for they
are channels of
understanding and wisdom. J.
Donald Walters.
Happiness cannot come
from without. It must come
from within. It is not what
we see and touch or that
which others do for us which
makes us happy; it is that
which we think and feel and
do, first for the other
fellow and then for
ourselves. --Helen Keller
Hope is itself a species of
happiness, and,
perhaps, the chief
happiness which this world
affords. --Samuel
Johnson
It would add much to human
happiness, if an art could
be taught of forgetting all
of which the remembrance is
at once useless and
afflictive... that the mind
might perform its functions
without encumbrance, and the
past might no longer
encroach upon the present.
--Samuel Johnson (The Idler)
The greater part of our
happiness or misery depends
on our dispositions and not
on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Happiness depends upon
ourselves.--Aristotle
Happiness is not in our
circumstances, but in
ourselves.--John B. Shereen
The greater part of our
happiness depends on our
disposition and not our
circumstances. Martha
Washington
Happiness is a habit.
Cultivate it. Elbert
Hubbard
Many persons have a wrong
idea of what constitutes
true happiness. It is not
attained through
self-gratification but
through fidelity to a worthy
purpose. --Helen Keller
(1880 - 1968)
How many of us go through
our days parched and empty,
thirsting after happiness,
when we're really standing
knee-deep in the river of
abundance . Sarah Ban Breathnach
The
road to happiness lies in
two simple principles: find
what interests you and that
you can do well, and put
your whole soul into it -
every bit of energy and
ambition and natural ability
you have. - John D.
Rockefeller, II
Happiness,
not in another place but
this place…not for another
hour, but this hour…— Walt
Whitman
The greatest happiness that
you can have is knowing that
you do not necessarily
require happiness. --
William Saroyan, novelist
You cannot always have
happiness, but you can
always give happiness.
--Anon.
A man
is happy so long as he
chooses to be happy. --
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Most people are about as
happy as they make up their
minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is not a
state to arrive at, but a
manner of traveling. Samuel
Johnson
The discovery of a new dish
does more for the happiness
of the human race than the
discovery of a star.Jean
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
From
Simple Abundance by
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Growth itself contains the
germ of happiness.
Pearl Buck, To My
Daughters, with Love
Thousands of candles can be
lighted from a single
candle, and the life of the
candle will not be
shortened. Happiness
never decreases by being
shared. --Buddha
Our happiness or our
unhappiness depends far more
on the way we meet the
events of life than on the
nature of those events
themselves. Wilhelm von
Humboldt
Happiness
consists more in small
conveniences or pleasures
that occur every day, than
in great pieces of good
fortune that happen but
seldom to a man in the
course of his life.
--Benjamin Franklin
Happiness cannot come from
without. It must come from
within. Helen Keller
My happiness is not the
means to any end. It is the
end. Ayn Rand
Happiness is not achieved by
the conscious pursuit of
happiness; it is generally
the by-product of other
activities.-- Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963), Vedanta for the
Western World, 1945
Your unhappiness is not due
to your want of a fortune or
high position or fame or
sufficient vitamins. It is
due not to a want of
something outside of you,
but to a want of something
inside you. You were made
for perfect happiness. No
wonder everything short of
God disappoints you.
--Fulton Sheen
Happy is he who has been
able to learn the causes of
things. Virgil
There is only one happiness
in life, to love and be
loved.
-- George Sand (1804-1876)
One
thing I know: the only ones
among you who will be really
happy are those who will
have sought and found how to serve .Albert
Schweitzer
On Happiness by Josephson Institute: " Ask
struggling adolescents why they get high on drugs or alcohol or seek sex without
intimacy or commitment and they’re likely to tell you they just want to be
happy. Ask young professionals why they’re so driven to make money and they’ll
talk about all the things they’d get if they were rich, things that will make
them happy. Ask adults why they had affairs or left their families and you’ll
hear it again: "I just want to be happy." So, why aren’t more people happy?
....Traditionally, there are four main sources of real happiness: loving
relationships, enjoyable work, service to others and faith.
http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/MED/MED-6beingperson.htm retrieved
10/20/06
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