Seven Golden Rules for Happy Life

1)   If you like a thing, enjoy it.

2)  If you do not like a thing, avoid it.

3)   If you do not like a thing and can not avoid it, change it.

4)  If you do not like a thing can not avoid it and can’t or would not change it, accept it.

5)  When accepting you must accept it with a changed point of view.

6)  Memory of an unpleasant happening causes stress so let go whatever does not come your way.

7)  Dedicate all your action to GOD.

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The future is not an inheritance. It is an opportunity and an obligation.

                                                                         -----Bill Clinton

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started. ----- Marcus Garvey

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

                                                                                                     ---Voltarire

If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.                               ---- Oprah Winfrey  

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done. ----Allard Lowenstein 

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the sources of happiness. -----Ray Lyman Wilbur

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first the lesson afterward.

                       ---Vernon Law

         Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. ----- Malcolm Muggeridges

        The better-quality man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ---Confucius 

We all need a laugh and I guess you are just the one.—Rod Stewart

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money. ----- Cree Indian Proverb

Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own. -------- Jewel Kilcher

It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is a woman. ---- Federico Fellini

It is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create

                                              ----–David M Ogilvy, advertising executive     

Every man dies-not every man really lives. ----- William Ross

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

                                                                        ---Kin Hubbard

I saw few die of Hunger, of eating a hundred thousand. --- Benjamin Franklin

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. ---- Tupac Shakur

If a thought come into your head, it’d die from loneliness. ----- Jake Burns

The goal of all life is death. ------Sigmund Freud

No leader should be chosen by birth instead of merit.

                                ------Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Former Bhutanese King

Only a crowd can make you feel so alone. --------- Mick Jagger

A leader is a dealer in hope. ----- Nepolean Bonaparte, French Leader

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men – the other 999 follow women.

                                                                      --- Groucho Marx, comedian

It is not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept. ----- Bill Watterson

Sometims we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. -- Alexander Graham Bel,  US Inventor

Identity is theft of the self. – Estle Martin

 Bad weather always looks worse through a window. – Tom Lehrer

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. – Bob Dylen

If you do not have enemies you do not have character. ---- Paul Newman

Nobody really cares if you are miserable, so you might as well be happy.

                                                                             –Cynthia Neims

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.  

                                                                   -- Tomy Lasorda

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘compared to what? -- Sydney Harris

Some times your Joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of others’ Joy. – Anonymous 

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

-- Oscar Wilde

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

–       Benjamin Disraeli

Virtue is never left to stand alone. – Confucius

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.

–       Josh Billings

I become insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. – Edgar Allan Poe

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities .

                                                                       –Frank Lloyd Wright

Inflation is taxation without legislation. -    Milton Friedman, American Economist 

I am an atheist and I thank god for it. -    George Bernard Shaw

Unlock our mind, unlock your mind. Throw off the fear and let us fly. Heather Nova

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.   -----  Jon Bon Jovi

I have nothing to declare except my genius.    ----     Oscar Wilde

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Don’t just sit back, kick back. ----  Steve Harwell

You are sick of yourself. We’ll, I am sick of you, too.  ----- Limp Bizkit

If to know you is to hate you, then loving you must be like suicide.

                                                    ---- Billy Joe Armstrong   

Every time I find the meaning  of life, they change it. -----  Anonymous

All the things I really like are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

                                                  ------ Alexander Woollcott

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has  taken out of me.

                                      ----- Winston Churchill

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.

                                        ------- Anonymous 

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

                                                            ----  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue. --- Dilbert

Don’t be so humble, you are not that great. --------- Golda Meir

The Eightfold Path of Budhism—

Right View

Right Intention

Right Speech

Right Action

Right Livelihood

Right Effort

Right mindfulness

Right Concentration

It is difficult but rewarding –

To believe when others are doubting,

To work when others are dreaming,

To care when others are neglecting,

To smile when others are criticizing,

To build when others are destroying,

To serve when others are demanding,

To give when others are grasping,

To forgive when others are condemning,

To               when others are