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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. __ Johann von Goethe
Learn how to feel joy. __Seneca
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. __Storm Jameson
"Don’t mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog." __ Josh Billings
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." __ Abraham Lincoln
"One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts—once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness—simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience." __George Sand
"If you want to die happily, learn to live happily."__Celio Calcagnini
"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again—this is the brave and happy life." __J.E. Buchrose
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." __Hosea Ballou
If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. __Paula A. Bendry
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelious
Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering.--- Francois de Fenelon
"To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor’s except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ, and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God’s out-of-doors--- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace." __Henry Van Dyke
Hello my name is Claudette. You have met Rebecca and Contessa, but now I must share my story and favorite quotes with you.
I am 27-years-old and my mother is black and my father is Asian. It is very difficult being a woman of mixed heritage because people are only comfortable when they can clearly define who you are and where they think you belong.
My beautiful green eyes have been my blessing and my curse. Men have fallen in love with me on sight and women hate me before getting to know to me. I have to work very hard to cultivate friendships with women because they think my life is easy.
I am an African American woman, we come in so many sizes, shapes and colors. I hate my thighs because they are huge. I have learned to love and accept my body-- especially my huge thighs.
I am an Authentik Beauty because I have learned to embrace and accept my unique authentic beauty.
Claudette's Favorite Quotes:
"Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: “I am doing God’s will on earth.” __ Anton Chekhov "The mind is never right but when it is at peace with itself."__ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." __Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."__ Sophocles "The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days." __ Psalms "Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness."__ Blaise Pascal
