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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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THE BIBLE Remember to afford yourself
the same generosity
you give to others.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be generous with your
time and energy. The harder
it is to give, the more
the other p...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Recognise how much
you have to give.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Although happiness is a state
of being, it usually still requires
some doing if it is to b...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Commit to being happy and
make the choices that will
support your commitment.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be courageous in your
decision-making.
Stand by your choices
and never look back.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Don’t rely on the opinions of others.
Only you will know what is
right for you.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Unless you have the
courage to say ‘no’ to
the things you don’t want,
it’s ha...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be honest with yourself.
You can’t be the best
you can be unless you know
who you r...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI It’s easy to be brave when
everything is going your way.
When the going gets tough,
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI To be happy, you need to do
the right thing for you,
even when it feels like the
hard...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Don’t take your happiness for
granted. Be proactive about
maintaining and sustaining it<...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI There is a big difference between
being self-ist and being selfish—
putting yourself fir...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI The only person who can
take responsibility for your
happiness is you.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Being the best you can be
takes courage. You need to own
your decisions and have the
...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI The most important
commitment you will ever make
is to being the best you can be.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Most people are fine with fine
and okay with okay.
If you want to be the best you
can...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Very few changes in life are
achieved without effort and a
commitment to making that effor...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI When you decide to be the best
you can be, don’t be surprised
if the circle of people yo...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Live your life with courageous
integrity. Do the right thing,
not the easy thing.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI If someone tries to undermine
your commitment, re-evaluate
your commitment to them.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Identify your driving motivation
and you will have all the
encouragement you need.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Give the people you love the
best of yourself, not the worst.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Sometimes being happy will
require some difficult conversations.
Some of those conversatio...
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If you are moving in the ...
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ANN MARIE AGUILAR A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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SOCRATES A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, an...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to wa...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Arm thyself for the truth!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every eye looking on finds its own.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; bu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to i...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON