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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a"	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."	Carl Gustav Jung
"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."	Franz Kafka
"Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day! Such is the salutation of the dawn."	Kalidasa
"I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound."	Helen Adams Keller
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."	Helen Adams Keller
"It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while."	Helen Adams Keller
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."	Helen Adams Keller
"The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs."	Thomas à Kempis
"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences."	Eugene Kennedy
"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."	Jean Kerr
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Alfred Adler	Allan K. Chalmers	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Al Capp	Amanda Bradley	Amy Grant
Anais Nin	Andrew Bonar Law	André Gide
André Maurois	Angel Blessing	Anne Frank
Annette Goodheart	Annie Besant	Ann Landers
Aristotle	Athenæus	A. Edward Newton
A. E. Houseman	Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett	Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Iddings Bell	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Betty Naomi Friedan	Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Bryant Gumbel
Buddha	Burton Hills	B. J. Gupta
Carl Gustav Jung	Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Dickens
Charles Augustus Lindbergh	Charles Farrar Browne	Charles Langbridge Morgan
Charlotte Bronte	Chauncey Depew	Christopher Darlington Morley
Christopher S. Drew	Clarence Day	Claude Adrien Helvetius
Confucius	Count Maurice Maeterlink	Craig Claiborne
Dale Carnegie	David Gerrold	David Havard
Dean Koontz	Deciderius Erasmus	Diane Elizabeth Duane
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Donald Robert Perry Marquis	Don Fraser
Doris Wild Helmering	Dorothy DeBolt	Douglas Jerrold
Dr.	Dr. David M. Burns	Dr. Joyce
Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller	Dwight David Eisenhower
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Eddie Cantor	Edith Ann
Edmund Burke	Elias Canetti	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Epictetus	Epicurus	Erich Fromm
Eric Hoffer	Ernest Holmen	Ernest Miller Hemingway
Ethel Barrymore	Ethel Perry Andrus	Eugene Kennedy
Euripides	Eustace Budgell	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Fran Lebowitz	Franz Kafka	Fran Leibowitz
Frederick William Faber	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F(rancis) Scott
F. H. Bradley	Gabrid Garcia Marquez	George Burns
George Barrell Cheever	George Levinger	George Mathew Allen
George Seaton Bowes	George W. Douglas	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Glenn Holm	Goldie Hawn	Hannah Arendt
Harold S. Geneen	Hebrews 12:2 Bible	Hector Hugh Munro
Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller	Henri Matisse
Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Graham Greene	Henry James	Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Miller	Herbert "Marshall" McLuhan	Horace
Horace Mann	Howard Abrahamson	Hugh Downs
H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky	H. Jackson Browne	Ingrid Bergman
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Maritain
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Gould Cozzens	James Lane Allen
Janet Louise Holman	Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière	Jean Caldwell
Jean de LaBruyere	Jean de La Bruyère	Jean Kerr
Jenna Elfman	Jesse Louis Jackson	Jim
Joachim du Bellay	Joan Winmill Brown	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Johann Kaspar Lavater	John Barrymore
John Burroughs	John B. Gough	John Cheever
John Christian Bovee	John Dryden	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John K. Hutchens	John Mason Brown	John Mason Good
John Stuart Mill	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Addison
Joseph Conrad	Julia A. Fletcher Carney	Julie Arabi
Kahlil Gibran	Kalidasa	Kitaro Nishida
Lao-Tzu	Lawrence Peter Berra	Lewis Mumford
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton	Lord Mancroft	Lucretius
Ludwig van Beethoven	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marabeth Madsen
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maredith Close	Margaret Bonnano	Margaret Lindsey
Mark Twain	Marlene Dietrich	Marquis de Sade
Martina Horner	Martin Luther	Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Cholmondeley	Maurice Chevalier	Maxim Gorky
Maxwell Maltz	Mel Colgrove	Michael Leuning
Mignon McLaughlin	Miguel de Cervantes	Mme. de Sartory
Mohammed Daud Khan	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Naguib Mahfouz
Napolean Hill	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Newell Dwight Hillis
Norman Lear	Norman MacEwan	Ogden Nash
Og Mandino	Orison Swett Marden	Orson Scott Card
Oscar Levant	Ossian Lang	Patrice Gifford
Paul Aubuchon	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Peggy Fleming
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Phil Gramm	Psalms 30:5 Bible
Rachel Blanchard	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Kiner	Rene Descartes	Richard David Bach
Richard Needham	Rita Mae Brown	Robertson Davies
Robert Anson Heinlein	Robert Green Ingersoll	Robert Lee Frost
Robert Montgomery	Robert Newton Anthony	Rodan of Alexandria
Roger Ward Babson	Romare Beardon	Rose Lane
Roy Goodman	Ruth Fulton Benedict	R. J. Baughan
Saint Augustine	Adela Rogers St. Johns	Salvador de Madaringa
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sarah Knowles Bolton	Shakti Gawain
Sigmund Freud	Simondes of Ceos	Sir James Matthew Barrie
Smiley Blanton	Srully D. Blotnick	Storm Jameson
Stuti Garg	Sue Grafton	Sydney J. Harris
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Taisen Deshimaru	Tao Le Ching
The 14th. Dalai Lama	The Dhammapada	Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Davidson	Thomas Edward Bodett
Thomas Mann	Thomas à Kempis	Thom Barber
Tibetan Doctrine	Ursula K. LeGuin	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
Victor Borge	Victor Hugo	Václav Havel
Walter Savage Landor	Warren Gamaliel Harding	Wayne W(alter) Dyer
Willa Sibert Cather	William Blake	William Hazlitt
William James	William Adams	William Ellery Channing
William Faulkner	William J. Locke	William Ralph Inge
Wilma Askinas	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Woody Allen
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(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	(Jean) Anthleme Brillant-Savarin	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson
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