Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and No one else can make me happy.
Pierre Reverdy: There is no love; there are only proofs of love.
One regrets the loss even of one’s worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one’s personality. —OSCAR WILDE
Discouraging as he’d been, hadn’t actually hit on my real worry about my project: Was it supremely self-centered to spend so much effort on my own happiness?
The fact is, changing a habit is much more challenging if that new habit means altering or losing an aspect of ourselves.
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...
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...
Generally, I’ve observed, we seek changes that fall into the Essential Seven. People—including me—most want to foster the habits that will allow them to: 1. Eat and drink more healthfully (give up sug...
Gertrude Stein remarked, Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.
Life is too short to save your good china or your good lingerie or your good ANYTHING for later because truly, later may never come.
Jamie is a funny mix. He has a sardonic side that can make him seem distant and almost harsh to people who don’t know him well, but he’s also very tender-hearted. (A
Jamie has a transition habit when he comes home from work. He gives everyone a hello kiss, then disappears for twenty minutes or so. He changes out of his suit, sends one last round of emails, glances...
Getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person’s daily happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.
It’s a Secret of Adulthood: Make sure the things we do to make ourselves feel better don’t make us feel worse.
It’s a Secret of Adulthood: If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn’t selfish.
It’s a Secret of Adulthood: Happiness doesn’t always make you feel happy.
It’s fun to fail, I kept repeating. It’s part of being ambitious; it’s part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.
Second Splendid TruthOne 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 e happy yourself. p 147
Happiness, wrote Yeats, is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
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