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As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness. -- Dorothea Dix
There's no money back guarantee on future happiness. -- Elvis Costello
All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness. -- Suleman Abdullah
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. -- Steve Maraboli
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day. -- Charles William Eliot
We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now. -- Peter Russell
Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas Jefferson
When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present. -- Shannon L. Alder
Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis. -- Robert Collier
Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it. -- Bruno Bettelheim
I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians. -- Christopher Morley
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. -- James Payn
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present. -- Octavio Paz
When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future". -- Gretchen Rubin
God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.] -- John H Aughey
The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection of a thousand slighted opportunities of fulfilling the wishes of those who will soon pass away from among us: and do they ask us for the future happiness of our lives, we lay it at their feet, and will it away from us. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge. -- Edward Gibbon
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. -- Seneca the Younger
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. -- Nicole Kidman
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. -- Jim Rohn
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. -- Ambrose Bierce
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being. -- Virginia Postrel
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. -- Honore de Balzac
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. -- Eckhart Tolle
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. -- Samuel Richardson
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them. -- Sylvie Meis
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. -- Olympia Brown
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. -- Julia Ward Howe
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. -- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world. -- Bob Brown
It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there. -- Karen Finerman
In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by critics on both coasts. -- Virginia Postrel
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren. -- Kay Hagan
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children. -- Khaled Hosseini
Happiness is not a future event. -- Joe Fortenberry
Many people see happiness only in their future. -- FranÃ§ois Lelord
Many people see happiness only in their future. -- FranÃ§ois Lelord
Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition. -- Hugh Prather
Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future. -- Robert Holden
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. -- Seneca the Younger
you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future. -- Tracie Peterson
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. -- C. S. Lewis
Is it alright to believe in the future where everyone can live in happiness? -- Hiromu Arakawa
Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past. -- Zig Ziglar
Let the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on. -- Vikrmn
The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present. -- Manoj Arora
Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present. -- Kid Cudi
Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present. -- Anonymous
My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations. -- Debasish Mridha
Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future. -- Khalil Gibran
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy. -- Rudolf Steiner
We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now. -- Pema Chodron
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise. -- Ella Maillart
Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream. -- Ambrose Bierce
My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it. -- A.J. Darkholme
It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. -- Orson Scott Card
Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily? -- Edmond Mbiaka
Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future. -- Jeanette Lee
Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily~? -- Edmond Mbiaka
Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine. -- Toni Coleman
We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available all the time! -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future. -- Maria V. Snyder
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past. -- Leo Tolstoy
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present. -- Chip Conley
Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory. -- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much -- Mel Gibson
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires. -- J. G. Holland
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim. -- Jennifer Crusie
I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness. -- Jane McGonigal
I don't necessarily buy any key to the future of happiness, but I need a little place in the sun sometimes or I think I will die. -- Patty Griffin
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age. -- Virginia Woolf
I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other. -- Abigail Adams
Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now. -- Claudia Gray

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