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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time. -- Daniel Kahneman
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. -- Irving Babbitt
Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen. -- Debra Messing
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. -- Stephen Covey
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. -- Daniel Kahneman
Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. -- Epictetus
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. -- Ogden Nash
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. -- Nicole Kidman
Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world. -- Roel van Sleeuwen
The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness -- Diane Keaton
So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find. -- Dalai Lama
Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness. -- Joel Osteen
As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach. -- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness. -- Chamique Holdsclaw
The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives. -- Rory Sutherland
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking. -- Claude M. Bristol
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. -- Epictetus
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. -- Andre Leon Talley
My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being. -- Michelle Obama
Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within. -- Epictetus
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. -- Barbara de Angelis
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness. -- Gautama Buddha
Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself). -- Tony Hsieh
But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control. -- Wesley Schultz
This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long -- Celia Johnson
self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude. -- Mandy Hale

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