Oh to be happy

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou Look around and you will find lots of laughter, plenty of smiles and chuckles and ample hilarity and mirth around. You make the pleasant discovery that there is an abundance of Happiness around and it is there everywhere. You might [...]

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Why worry?

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. William Ralph Inge Anything that disturbs our equilibrium, will pressurize us, make us anxious and continue to be an irritant that constantly nags and worries us. It could be as simple as awaiting ones exam results or it could be more life altering as awaiting [...]

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Forgiving ones own self

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. Publilius Syrus Many of us live with regrets and those regrets never let us enjoy our life to the fullest. There is always that lingering feeling of uneasiness that mars our bliss, spoils our fun and restrains our exuberance. What compounds our misery is that our regrets [...]

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In GOD we trust…

With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.2 Chr. Desperation is when one has lost all hope; yet that is when we need to believe that there is still a chance for there is a superpower called’ GOD” who will never forsake us. The skeptic and the atheist [...]

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Life is…

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell When things don’t go the way we expect it to or wish it to go, we blame life’s unfairness and feel cheated and discriminated against. What we often fail to understand is that life offers everyone, without exception, an opportunity and it also [...]

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Finding happiness…

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. Anon Look around and you will suddenly realize that there are hundreds of people who are in a financially much worse off position than us and yet the vast majority of them seem to be happy. This despite the fact that many of [...]

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The gain from pain

One cannot get through life without pain … What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.  Bernie S. Siegel, M.D. Broadly speaking one will experience 3 types of pain. The physical pain is what we are most familiar with like breaking our bones or getting grazed when one [...]

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Faith vs Self-Pity

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.  Og Guinness Every morning in the jungle a Lion gets up and says that he has to run faster than the slowest the dear or he would have to grow hungry. At the same time every day in the jungle a deer gets up and says I [...]

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Self Pity

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Helen Keller Quite often we tend to brood over the past and a number of times we stray into a ‘If only’ mode, thereby suggesting that ‘If only’ things were different at a point in [...]

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