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Hope and Joy

"Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come true." – Sydney Smith, English writer and Anglican cleric (1771-1845) Hope and joy. Are these words that are missing from our vocabulary? If we’re in recovery, hope and joy certainly should be part of our life, [...]

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 [...]