Tag Archives: Happiness

Chose and enjoy

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Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.

Bill Blackman

Think about a little child in a Toys’R’Us store, being able to get a cart full of toys for free. Look at that little human being, wanting everything and being totally excited about it! Now look at you. You are this child and the world is your Toys’R’Us. Too many pepple don’t see the awesomeness of our world of possibilities. They get scared and paralyzed by it.

There are endless possibilities, endless ways to be happy and live a fucking awesome life. Just decide what you want to try out and go for it, don’t feel bad, don’t be anxious, instead be bold and just do it.

/phil

Enjoy!

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Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson

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You’ll be happy, don’t worry [picture]

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Don’t worry if your part is the right one or the wrong one. Every part can lead to a happy life as this caroon from zenpencils perfectly describes by illustrating Robert Frosts poem:

 

Live up to your potential!

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Abraham Maslow

/phil

Make your own luck

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Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Happiness and money

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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

F. D. Roosevelt

Well no, money does not make one happy. But it is an indicator. Why you ask?

Well people who have a lot of money often have earned a lot of money. And they did this by having discipline and doing hard creative work over a long period of time (in many cases at least).

This long time of hard and creative work is what makes people happy. Building up things, creating things, that is what makes humans happy.

So someone can be happy without having money and someone can be happy with having lots of money. It would be wrong to say that most people who are happy have lots of money. But I think it is safe to assume that most people who have lots of money (-> earned lots of money) are in fact happy, because they felt achievement and joy.

It is a saying that not the one who can buy everything is the happiest, but the one who needs the least. I agree. And the one who needs the least is the one who has created more than anyone else: A modest human being that has turned down ego and greed to a minumum.

Work on things you love and by that work on yourself, your charakter, your body: That will bring you happiness! If money is involved: All right. If there is not much money involved: Fine.

Don’t go out there in search for money. If you want to succeed merely in order to get rich, I do not want to work with you.

/phil

Why are you happy?

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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Richard Bach

Happiness is awesome but happiness through outer circumstances is dangerous. Don’t let your state of mind depend on other people.

Why would you let other people controll if you are happy or not? Just don’t do that.

/phil

Make use of your life

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I want to be all used up when I die.

George Bernard Shaw

You don’t want to waste your life by not wasting it.

You want to die knowing that you could not have done that much more, knowing that you could not have had that much more fun.

When you die you should feel that your life was awesome, exciting and exhausting.

/phil

Smile!

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Are you still reading this? Stop, take a break and SMILE

Okay, smiling is awesome! Smiling is powerfull and amazing. But wait! There is more: Not only does it make you happy instantly (has it just worked?), it makes other people happy!

A simple smile from a stranger can make some persons day! So if you go wander around your city don’t look down, don’t hide, instead smile at people! The worst case that can happen is ignorance and who gives a damn? In 90% of the cases other people will be pleasantly suprised and you helped yourself and some stranger to have a better day.

Just do it 🙂

/phil

Keep in Motion

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Rick Mereki, Tim White, Andrew Lees

Many people have this idea of how to live a happy life: Create a surounding that pleases you, a house, a familiy, expensive car…or whatever. And as long as you live within this surounding you’ll be happy.

Well, this sounds like a not-so-bad life. But in my opinion stagnation is never a way to a fulfilling and happy lifestyle. On the other hand when you keep in motion and keep your life shifting, it doesn’t become boring and you don’t get used to it. Life is often pictured as a journey and I think it should be lived like a journey. So don’t stop halfway. Move on.

I’m not talking about dramatic changes every two and a half week. This would be rather contra-productive. But as life goes on you’ll figure out your personal frequency of change and movement you need in your life…

/robin