Being happy doesn't mean
everything is perfect,
It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
(from a card I have on
my fridge)
Being happy doesn't mean
everything is perfect,
It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
(from a card I have on
my fridge)
early 40's white male or or
Happiness, like anger, sorrow,
amused etc. are a matter of choice. You hear "She made me mad" "He hurt my feelings" and so on. That's only true
when you allow people to have that type of power over you. You make the choice to allow them that power. Instead you
can choose to be whatever mood you want, all you have to do is stop blaming others and start taking responsibility
for yourself. We are whatever we choose to be as we create our own reality.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
I came across something on this same
topic....
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch
or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other
fellow and then for ourselves.
-- Hellen Keller
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha
Yoga in Eugene
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i was listening to NPR
(national public radio) station awhile back and they talked about happiness. it was very enlightening. and they had
this guy on there thats like a psycologiest and he wrote a book call "stumbling upon happiness" (sp?) so right after
i heard it i went to barns and noble and started reading that book and it was pretty intresting. hmmm now that i
think about it i need to get that book. i have forgotten about it.
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