A pill for all ills

The therapeutic value of laughter is perhaps the most undervalued commodity in the world. This is because laughter has no price and yet it is ‘priceless’. In fact we do not value this invaluable resource for we take it for granted just like the wonders that are given free by nature; sunshine, air and water. [...]

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Dear Friends, Today’s post is very different from the normal posts. I am taking this opportunity to share with some salient features of this blog and to update you about how it has shaped up over the last year and a half. For me, the very thought that I have managed to last so long [...]

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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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Being happy

A happy life is one, which is in accordance with its own nature. Marcus Annaeus Seneca The essence of happiness lies in trying to keep in harmony with the world around us. The trouble unfortunately is that most times the world seems to be at cross-purposes with our feelings, wants, expectations and hopes. Obviously, when [...]

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Give and receive

It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35 One of the problems that we humans constantly battle is our urge to want more and more. We crave to have more wealth, more power, more freedom and more happiness. More often than not, it is a losing battle because we are unable to [...]

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We are blessed

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.  Robert Quillen The average human being, and the overwhelming population would fall in that category, is forever striving, aspiring and perspiring in the forlorn hope of increasing our wealth and assets. That by itself is a noble way of living life but scratch the [...]

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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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Forgive and…

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. Dwight L. Moody When we hold a grouse against another, we not only carry a deep resentment but there is a lot of ill will that we wish upon that person.  We work up a frenzy within [...]

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Happiness is our choice

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln Happiness is a choice that each of us has to exercise. Look around and you will see laughter emitting from the shanties around the cities suburbs and similar hearty guff’s and peals of laughter emitting from the homes of [...]

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Spread happiness

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy. Luther Burbank Laugh, and the world laughs with you:  Weep, and you weep alone; are the famous lines which sets the tone of the poem Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox which captures the essence of today’s quote. Just visualize the times you have laughed [...]

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