不要因为别人的一句话而觉得自己很特别； 不要因为别人的一堆话而觉得自己很普通。

1. contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
2. A lifetime of happiness!No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on erath.
3. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
4. Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distress.
5. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, and self-denial, and study.
6. Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disap-pointed.
7. Call no man happy till he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
8. For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
9. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers" garden..  
10. Happiness is a butterfly, which ,when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
11. Happy is the man who is living by his hobby.
12. Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
13. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
14. Hope is itself a species of happiness which this world affords.
15. Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happi-ness and contentment.
16. Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
17. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
18. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
19. Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
20. One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
21. Only when a man"s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pro-nounce him happy.
22. There ae two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and ,after that, to enjoy it , only the wisest of mankind achieve the sceond.
23. The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.