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Thank You Dear Readers!
Thank You Dear Readers! Our primary purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. ~ Dalai Lama It has been a happy and wonderful year! For me personally I … Continue reading
Posted in Appalachian Trail (AT) Happiness, Holiday Happiness, personal happiness
Tagged appalachian trail, best of, happiness, holidays, new year, positivity, stress, success, worry, year end
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Happy Christmas? Thoughts on the holiday season.
Happy Christmas? Thoughts on the holiday season. The main reason Santa is so jolly is that he knows where all the bad girls live ~ George Carlin I have been working on making the Ministry of Happiness posts more consistent, … Continue reading
Posted in Holiday Happiness, personal happiness
Tagged anxiety, Christmas, depression, happiness, holidays, new year's eve, new years, positivity, smile
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Holiday Happiness: Ten Tips for the Tenth
Holiday Happiness: Ten Tips for the Tenth Whatever makes you happy,as long as it doesn’t hurt you or someone else, do it. Schedule pleasurable activities into your life with the same dedication, precision & priority you give less-than-pleasurable ones ~ … Continue reading
Posted in Holiday Happiness
Tagged Christmas, depression, happiness, holidays, sadness, tips
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Holiday Happiness: A Happiness Poem
Holiday Happiness: A Happiness Poem The holidays are a very stressful time for everyone and an exceptionally hard time for some. So, until the New Year I’ll be posting a Holiday Happiness post each day to try help folks out … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness is Poetry, Holiday Happiness
Tagged bukowski, depression, happiness, holidays, langston hughes, neruda, poetry, rumi, warsan shire, william blake
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Thank you for 15,000 views!!!
Thank you for 15,000 views!!! Four years ago I started the Ministry of Happiness, things started a bit slow, in the first four months we got about 800 views. Over the next three years things got steadily better, increasing to … Continue reading
Posted in personal happiness
Tagged blog, facebook, happiness, holidays, new year, twitter, writing
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34 Days of Happiness, Day 7 – Happiness Quotes
34 Days of Happiness, Day 7 – Happiness Quotes The holidays are often a very stressful period for people so for the next 34 days (Thanksgiving through Christmas) we’re going to do a post a day, something happy and uplifting … Continue reading
Posted in personal happiness
Tagged balance, Christmas, gratitude, happiness, holidays, kindness, life, positivity, quotes
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Happiness is a Good Bottle of Wine
Happiness is a Good Bottle of Wine Wine is bottled poetry ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Wine is a funny sort of beverage, we treat it differently than almost any other beverage. What other beverage has rating scores posted at the … Continue reading
Posted in personal happiness
Tagged celebration, drinking, hangover, happiness, holidays, love, romance, wine, wine tasting
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Happy New Year – 2014
Happy New year – 2014!!! New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~ Mark Twain Happy New Year 2014 my friends, … Continue reading
Posted in Deng Ming-Dao
Tagged 2014, deng ming-dao, happiness, holidays, mark twain, new year, new years day, philosophy, taoism
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Happiness is Amateur Night: New Year’s Eve
Happiness is Amateur Night: New Year’s Eve Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~Brooks Atkinson Happy New Year’s Eve my friends, … Continue reading
Posted in personal happiness
Tagged celebration, happiness, holidays, life, new year, new year's eve, party
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Happiness is Santa Claus
Happiness is Santa Claus By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are more than pretty stories and traditions to delight children. Or to modify behavior. Each … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Christmas, fun, happiness, holidays, magic, santa clause, wonder
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