Category Archives: personal happiness

A Question of Happiness

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan Continue reading

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Monday Wisdom from the Dalai Lama

A reminder from his holiness that our own thoughts and attitudes can drive the way the world works, hopefully this will help us all have a better Monday and week than we had last week.
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Saying Goodbye

This is a post from another blog that is about saying goodbye, to the things we want to lose and the people we love. Saying goodbye properly is as important to our happiness as anything else.

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A Perplexing Week but its a Happy Friday

So here is hoping the perplexing nature of this week is the beginning of a new learning experience and I wish you all a great weekend and I leave you a thought from Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Happiness Requires an Open Mind

Happiness cannot occur if you spend all of your time being negative and looking down on others. Finally, I think it is also important, no matter how much faith you have in science, to understand there is still magic in the world. Children understand this and it is important to remember that children are often much happier than adults, it is easy to write that off only to their lack of responsibilities, but I believe there is more to it than that, that there is a certain wisdom in the way in which children view the world.
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Tuesday has got to be better than Monday

Dalai Lama For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing more than acting out of concern for others. If you practice sincerely and with persistence, little by little, step by step you will gradually reorder your habits and attitudes so as to think less about your own narrow concerns and more about others’ – and thereby find peace and happiness yourself. Continue reading

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Patience part II and a little bit about work

I posted on patience the other day and can’t believe I didn’t include the quote above from the Dalai Lama. So I’ve rectified that little error and also provided you a quote from Albert Camus about work, given that most of you will be seeing this for the first time on Monday morning when you’re on your way or at work. Remember it is in all of our life where we need to search for happiness, if you find happiness in your job that’s fantastic. For those of you who don’t, then it’s time to seriously sit down and consider when and how you can change the work you do. Continue reading

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The Language of Happiness

I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough.
— Red Skelton
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Quickie from the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama Everybody wants a happy life. But sometimes people, in order to achieve a happy and successful life, rely entirely on external means like money and power. I think this is a mistake. Ultimately, the source of happiness and joyfulness is within ourselves. And once our mind is more calm and joyful, then our activities can be more effective. Continue reading

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Happiness is Loving Yourself

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young

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