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Happiness & Home
“Worry is the misuse of your imagination - thinking about what you don’t want to happen. Happiness is thinking about the desired result.” — Ed Foreman
“Be Glad of Life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” — Henry Van Dyke
“Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” — Anonymous
“Happiness is not having what you want. It’s wanting what you have.” — Unknown
“No matter what our decorating style, realized or aspired to, the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Dont make a living at the expense of life.” — Unknown
“The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“Love is above all the gift of oneself.” — Jean Anouilh
“The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, and in it are enshrined the precious keepsakes.” — Unknown
“To whom a lot has been given, a lot is expected.” — Unknown
“I’m too blessed to be stressed.” — Unknown
“In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” — Paul Harvey
“Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked.” — Adapted from Psalm 1:1
“Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“God bless America, my home sweet home.” — Irving Berlin
“Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens
“Kids need Love when they are acting most unloveable.” — Unknown
“The greatest gift I ever had, it came from God, I call him Dad.” — Unknown
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” — Danny Kaye
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” — Unknown
“Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing, you still have hope.” — Moe Howard - The Three Stooges
“Make someone happy. Make just one someone happy, and you’ll be happy too.” — Song written by Betty Condon, Adolph Green and Julie Styne
“Blessed is he who has found his work; Let him ask no other blessedness.” — Thomas Carlyle (1843)
“Blessed is she who has found her work; Let her ask no other blessedness.” — Thomas Carlyle (modified)
“There is no place I’d rather be than with thee.” — Sentiment
“Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.” — Dale Carnegie
“IMAGINE… stepping onto a shore and finding it heaven, taking hold of a hand and finding it God’s hand, breathing new air and finding it celestial air, feeling invigorated and finding it immortality, passing from storm & tempest to an unknown calm, waking… and finding it home.” — Unknown
“So much of what we know of love we learned at home.” — Unknown
“If you care, it shows.” — Unknown
“Congratulations on your new HOME!.” — Congrats
“True contentment is getting out of any situation all that there is in it.” — G.K. Chesterton
“If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” — Unknown
From inspire21.com/happiness-quotes/
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