Happiness is something you can work at. It's a matter of identifying the things you do that get in the way of happiness, and figuring out what positive activities you can do everyday to augment it.
- David Lykken, U of Minnesota
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Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abe Lincoln
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- Leo Tolstoy
To be in Hell is to drift; to be in Heaven is to steer.
- George Bernard Shaw
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It is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily;
You yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this,
you pretend that someone is keeping you from excercising your liberty.
Who is this? It is yourself.
- Thomas Merton, 1961
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I am resposible for the achievement of my desires.
I am responsible for my choices and acktions.
I am responsible for my personal happiness.
- Dr. Nathaniel Branden
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Depressed people are caught in a feedback loop in which distorted thoughts cause negative feelings, which then distort feelings further.
You can break the cycle by changing the thoughts.
A big part of cognitive therapy is training clients to catch the thoughts and distortions and then find alternative and more accurate ways of thinking.
Over many weeks,the client's thoughts become more realistic. The feedback loop is broken and the client's anxiety or depression abates.
- Johnathan Haidt, Psychologist and Happiness Researcher
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Thankfulness and Compassion:
"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time,
and always start with the person nearest you."
and always start with the person nearest you."
- Mother Teresa
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Dalai Lama
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
-Epictetus
Begonia Cultivar
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Mindfulness Meditation
