One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.
My idea of this is the kind of person I am is so bound up in my habits and actions that it’s hard for me to see. But eventually, I realized that my sense of identity makes it easier or harder to chang...
What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. You
Severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
For Rebels, the ability to choose is so important that sometimes they make a choice—even when it’s against their own self-interest or it’s not what they prefer—just to reassure themselves that they ca...
Habits eliminate the need for self-control.
Getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person’s daily happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.
At certain points in our lives, it may not be possible to be happy, but it is possible to try to be happier—as happy as we can be, under the circumstances—and by doing so, fortify ourselves against ad...
At the heart of this home is my family; where my family is, is home. If I lived by myself, home would be the place peopled with reminders of everyone I loved. My home is a place of unconditional belon...
Pierre Reverdy: There is no love; there are only proofs of love.
Epicurus wrote, We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it....
Perfection may be an impossible goal, but habits help us to do better. Making headway toward a good habit, doing better than before, saves us from facing the end of another year with the mournful wish...
Maurice Maeterlinck’s play The Blue Bird.
Boredom can be important. That’s when you have to figure out what you want to do.
The fact is, changing a habit is much more challenging if that new habit means altering or losing an aspect of ourselves.
But it doesn’t matter what we think a person (or ourselves) should be able to do—what matters is only what works for each individual. To help people change their habits or behavior, we should help get...
People have an inborn disposition that's set within a certain range, but they can boost themselves to the top of their happiness range or push themselves down to the bottom of their happiness range by...
I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.
It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.
In fact, for both men and women—and this finding struck me as highly significant—the most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn’t make a...
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