One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. –Dale Carnegie
It’s Your Parents’ Fault
According to a researcher in Mexico City Happiness May Be Inherited. So if you’re not happy you can now blame your parents for that. Why not, lots of people blame their parents for all sorts of things. But just because lots of people do it, doesn’t make it right. I can’t remember where I heard […]
Take Responsibility
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. –Thomas Merton
Stop And Enjoy It
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. –William Feather
Sit Quietly And Let Happiness Find You
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. –Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Negative Can Actually Be A Gift
It’s a disease that makes you uncomfortable, so, all things considered, that’s not too bad. It’s still a gift in that it makes one alive. To see what I’ve lost makes me see what I’ve gained and what I have. –Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
A reminder that tomorrow night, Thursday, May 7 is the night for Michael J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist on ABC TV. As they say, check your local listings for the time and channel. To your happiness!
A Dream Of Happiness
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only […]
Love What You Do
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. –Albert Schweitzer
Happiness Is More Than Pleasure
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. – George Sheehan
