All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. –Buddha
Are People In Nebraska Happier?
There’s another happiness index out — this time from Mainstreet.com which says people in Nebraska are happier than those in other parts of the country. This particular happiness index used household income, debt, employment and foreclosures to determine where people are happiest. I’m just not sure that using those criteria are truly a good way […]
Be Happiness
I’ve written a number of times, and posted quotations, pointing out that happiness isn’t something that comes from getting things or having a particular thing happen for you. Happiness is something that has to be part of your being. And it’s elusive in that if you try to grasp it you’ll find it slipping away. […]
We Have Just One Day
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. –Groucho Marx
Notice When It Goes Right
As we go through the day it seems really easy to notice when things go wrong: the traffic light turns red, we get the wrong item at the drive-thru, someone cuts us off in traffic, the cell phone drops a call. Do you notice when things go right? Probably not. Most of us don’t, but we […]
Savor Every Minute
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. –Earl Nightingale
Count Your Joys
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. –Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hard To Stay Positive
Have you found it hard to stay positive when those around you are negative? It can certainly be difficult to keep a positive attitude when the people you’re with have a negative attitude. The advice I’ve often heard is to separate yourself from those negative people. What If You Can’t Get Away Getting away from […]
Don’t Waste Time On Yesterday
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is […]
Where Happiness Resides
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. –George Santayana
