Category Archives: personal happiness

A Virtual Guide to the Calaveras Redwood North Grove Hike

A Virtual Guide to the Calaveras Redwood North Grove Hike Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.       … Continue reading

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Happiness advice if you’re feeling down right now

Happiness advice if you’re feeling down right now Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes It seems this year and particularly this week a lot of people I know have been feeling … Continue reading

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Staying Positive When You’re Taking Criticism

Staying Positive When You’re Taking Criticism         Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~ … Continue reading

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Happiness and our precious time

Happiness and our precious time   So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore … Continue reading

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You matter! You deserve to be happy!

You matter! You deserve to be happy! Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you ~ Lao Tzu You matter!  I’m not sure … Continue reading

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My Student Loan Gratitude and Happiness

My Student Loan Gratitude and Happiness Recently there was a story on Marketplace about student loan debt.  It banged on the student loan system a bit and although I agreed with some of the points, I felt like I needed … Continue reading

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Happiness at the Margin

Happiness at the Margin All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson So it’s been a crazy few weeks.  I’ve driven a couple … Continue reading

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Give me time & attention and I’ll be happy

Give me time & attention & I’ll be happy Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the … Continue reading

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Happiness & Relaxation

Happiness & Relaxation The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation. ~ Ilchi Lee I think today’s post falls into the category of duh philosophy.  You know it’s like when people tell you exercise is good for you, duh.  But … Continue reading

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Happiness & Acceptance

Happiness & Acceptance Happiness can only exist in acceptance ~ George Orwell “Acceptance is a beautiful thing, but it’s also something that I’ve struggled to master. Acceptance, the opposite of resistance, is simply allowing things to be as they are, … Continue reading

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