Mahatma Gandhi - Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Sophocles - Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Epictetus - There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Denis Waitley - Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Tim Duncan - I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
Renee Olstead - If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.
Akshay Kumar - It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.
Andy Behrman - After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.
Sandra Tsing Loh - Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg - I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.
Ben Bernanke - High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
Fiona Apple - I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Angela Bassett - When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
Parker Stevenson - I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to
Simon Newcomb - In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
Ed O'Neill - In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls
Laurie Anderson - At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Ruby Wax - College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
Carol P. Christ - I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
David Eddings - I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Peter Gallagher - I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
Leigh Steinberg - It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Alex Guarnaschelli - I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Albert Camus - Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Mac Thornberry - No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
John Adams - It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
Wendell L. Wilkie - I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Gerald Stanley Lee - America is a tune. It must be sung together
James Madison - The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
George Bernard Shaw - Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Kahlil Gibran - Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Gloria Steinem - The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Barack Obama - In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope
Dwight D. Eisenhower - The history of men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
George Washington - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America is another name for opportunity.
Peter Marshall - May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.
Marquis de Lafayette - Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Hazel Scott - Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
Germaine Greer - Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
James Baldwin - “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Lupita Nyong'o - Dreams are the foundation of America.
Hillary Clinton - Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America means opportunity, freedom, power.
John F. Kennedy - Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Thomas Campbell - The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree.
Barack Obama - In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
Bob Dylan - I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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