Sometimes we mistake patience for weakness, but the patient person often realizes that it's much more important for another person to discover his or her own gifts and shortcomings--the patient person doesn't feel a need to "fix" other people, and so...
You are as many a person as languages you know.
Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
The full person can not understand the needs of the hungry.
While a person gets they can never lose.
Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I thought happiness came from achievement.
To me, flowers are happiness.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.
I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?" "Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when yo...
More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that we prefer doing the dishes -- or napping, or shopping, or answering emails --...
DENIAL OF EMOTIONS Our culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling people "I'm fine" when I felt like the world was caving in ...
Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortu...
