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WELL-BEING

‘Most people are as happy as they make their minds up to be.’
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

‘Love is the engine and the petrol of life, the essence. Ninety percent of the things that we do, we do for love.’
ANDREA BOCCELLI

‘Figure out who you are separate from your family and the person you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.’
ANGELINA JOLIE

‘Worrying is praying for problems.'
ANON

‘Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps the unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.’
ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN

‘Experiences are remembered more than purchases. What you hold in your heart is more powerful than what you hold in your hand.’
BEN ELLIOT

‘You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.’
BUDDHA

‘Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside, awakens.’
CARL JUNG

‘We don' t remember days - we only remember moments.'
CESARE PAVESE

‘Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.’
CHARLES DICKENS

'Don't let yesterday use up too much of today'
CHEROKEE PROVERB

'True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.'
DAVE TYSON GENTRY

‘Look not to those things that are with-out, for all that is precious, sacred and good reside with-in.’
DEBORAH LOWREY

‘If something really bad happens, the best way to face it is to face it completely: to examine it, to get to the bottom of it; then you can wrap it up and put it away.’
DIANA ATHILL

‘How time is slipping underneath our feet; unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday, why fret about them if today be sweet.’
EDWARD FITZGERALD

‘A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.’
ELBERT HUBBARD

‘It is not events, but our beliefs about them that cause us suffering.’
EPICTETUS

‘No man is free who is not master of himself.’
EPICTETUS

‘The spectre of the future often overwhelms us to the exclusion of truly appreciating, and getting the most out of the day, the hour, the moment we are inhabiting.'
EUGENE O’ KELLY

‘This is the true joy in life - the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.’
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

‘We make happiness out of the situations we find ourselves in, even though they can be quite different from the things we set out to achieve in the first place.’
GEORGINA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE

‘There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval’.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.’
GHANDI

‘Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time.’
GOETHE

‘The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.’
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

‘The sorrow that does not out in tears makes other organs weep.’
HENRY MAUDSLEY

‘The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.’
HILARY STANTON ZUNIN

‘Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.’
ISAK DINESEN

‘One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.'
JACK PENN

‘Live your dreams like they last forever - live today like it' s your last.'
JAMES DEAN

‘How often is happiness destroyed by foolish preparation?’
JANE AUSTEN

‘Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.'
JOHN LENNON

‘Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.’
JOSEPH ADDISON

‘Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.’
LAO-TZU

‘The challenge in life is to die young as late as possible.'
MANFRED KETS DE VRIES

‘If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.'
MARIA EDGWORTH

‘Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.’
MARK TWAIN

‘The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.’
MARK TWAIN

‘Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.'
MAYA ANGELOU

‘Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.'
MAYA ANGELOU

‘Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.’
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

‘I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death’.
ROBERT FULGHUM

‘By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.’
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

‘Money and status are just trinkets compared to fellowship, love and laughter.’
ROBERT BURNS

‘Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.’
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

‘There are two ways of looking at the pursuit of happiness. One is to go straight to the things you fancy without restraints, that is, without considering anybody else besides yourself. The other is to recognise that our lives are inextricably mixed up with those of our fellow human beings, and that there can be no real happiness in isolation………….We opt for the second way.’
SIR OVE ARUP

‘Beware the barrenness of a busy life’
SOCRATES

‘Life is not a problem to be solved, rather a mystery to be lived.’
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

‘People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass themselves without wondering.’
ST AUGUSTINE

‘I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.’
STEPHAN GRELLET

‘People can be rescued from the deepest and darkest of black holes, they just need to stretch out their arms so that others can pull them out.’
TANYA BRYON

‘This moment is all we have. There is no past or future. There is only the now.’
TOM HODGKINSON

‘The world will move forward based on the quality of relationships.'
TOM WOJICK

‘Be open to the world and all it offers. Don’t let your nationality, age, religion, sex or sexuality stop you from engaging with it and sharing its pleasures. You only have this one chance. None of the external differences that others see matters and nor does the language or accent we speak in. It’s what we actually say (and do) that counts. So apologise for nothing in terms of what you were born with. And if the superficial judgement of others hurts, step forward into the sunlight regardless and let its warmth ease the pain of that away.’
TONY CURTIS

‘Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.’
UNKNOWN

‘If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.’
UNKNOWN

‘We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.’
UNKNOWN

‘The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.’

VICTOR HUGO

‘Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find’
WAYNE DYER

‘Look ahead and not behind you. Don’t waste time with regrets. Carry forward all the good things that you’ve done and leave the baggage by the road.’
WILBER SMITH

'It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.'
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

‘The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.’
W M LEWIS

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