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What Makes You Happy?
"It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." – Dale Carnegie, American writer, lecturer, and developer of courses in self-improvement, public speaking, salesmanship and interpersonal skills, author of How To Win Friends and Influence People (1888-1955) Chances [...]
Cheerfulness and Serenity
"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." – Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright and politician (1672-1719) Wouldn’t we all like to be cheerful each and every day? Does such a way of greeting the world seem like an impossibility, especially if we [...]
Little-Known Secret to Finding Happiness
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." – William James, often called the father of American psychology, best-known for pragmatism, functionalism and the James-Lange theory of emotion (1842-1910) How many times do we find ourselves saying that we just want to be happy? Or that we’d do anything to [...]
Finding Purpose and Direction
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." – John F. Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, 35th President of the United States (1917-1963, killed by the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald) We could go through life drifting aimlessly, never really committing to any specific purpose. We could keep up the same [...]
Thoughts about Peace
"Peace begins with a smile." – Mother Theresa, Roman Catholic nun, better known as the humanitarian nun of Calcutta, often called the Saint of the Gutters, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979, beatified following her death by Pope John Paul II and given the title of Blessed Theresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) Many of [...]
