Happiness Recipes and Quotes
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Happiness Recipes and Quotes to Help Make Your Day
Psychologists are now writing studies and books on scientifically proven ways to boost happiness. In addition, several Buddhist monks have become well known through their teachings on achieving happiness through mindfulness. I have several lenses on happiness in which these topics--the psychology of happiness and the Buddhist approach to happiness--are discussed.
In this lens I wanted to do something simple: offer happiness recipes and quotes to help brighten your day (or someone else's).
("Happiness" photo originally uploaded by sciondriver.)
Five Happiness Quotes
1. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer2. "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers
3. "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature." - Anne Frank
4. "Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around." - E.L. Konigsburg
5. "The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy." - H.H. the Dalai Lama
(Happiness - Summer 2008 courtesy of Raul A.).
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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
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Gretchen Rubin--a former lawyer and now writer, living in New York City, who is married and has two children--spent a year carrying out experiments in order to be happier. This included everything from making sure that she acknowledged all holidays by decorating her home accordingly, exercising, singing in the shower, going to be earlier, decluttering, and fighting fair with her husband.
Happiness Lenses
by Marelisa Fabrega
Happiness Recipe
"I have a little recipe that isn't hard to make
But you must always start as soon as you awake.
Take a great big mixing bowl and fill it with a smile
Mix half a cup of sunshine with good deeds to last a while.
Add a pinch of work and play, a pinch of thoughtfulness and care
But don't bake it in the oven, just spread it around everywhere."
(Mixing Bowl photo courtesy of dwstucke.)
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“"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within." - Horace Friess”
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Happiness Recipe #2
2 Heaped cups of patience
1 Heart full of love
2 Hands full of generosity
A Dash of laughter
1 Head full of understanding
1. Sprinkle generously with kindness
2. Add plenty of faith and mix well.
3. Spread over a period of a lifetime
4. And serve everyone you meet.
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Happiness Recipe #3
1 bag of smiles
2 cups of sharing
2lbs of positivity
1/2 cup of good humour
1 cup of self-esteem
2 spoonfuls of simplicity
1 dash of goodwill
4 drops of easy going
and 1 packet of life loving
“Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." -- Roy Goodman”
5 More Happiness Quotes
6. "It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." - Dale Carnegie7. "Be happy. It's one way of being wise." - Colette
8. "Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman
9. "The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping." - Claudius Claudianus
10. "This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances." - G. Bernard Shaw
Photo Rainbow Circus Candy courtesy of Pink Sherbet.
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Jolene_Belmain
Jan 11, 2012 @ 3:53 pm | delete
- Great lens... we all need to have a better outlook on life, and to learn no matter what is happening in our lives, it's healthy and great to laugh a little (or a lot) every single day. It's the little things in life that make a HUGE difference.
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mannasugar
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- Practice being Happy each day....
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