Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama)
Happiness is not something you buy.
Happiness is not some place you get to.
Happiness is not something you trade misery for.
Happiness is something you create – by your thoughts, feelings and actions.
What are you creating?
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop Because, regardless of what happens outside of you, when you’re kind, you chip away at any hardness covering over your soul.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis Each move forward requires letting go of a bar to reach forward to the next one. So it is with life. To move forward we must let go…
Your greatness is measured by your horizons. – Michelangelo Greatness is not what you’ve done, it’s what you aspire to, plan to, and believe you will, do.
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out. Tennessee Williams The Japanese word Kaizen means (small and continuous) improvement. The making better of things, over time. Rather than confronting issues, problems and long-festering wounds “head-on” with a Hollywood-action-movie-like-grandiosity, what if you identified a particular component of an issue or problem or long-festering wound and took…
There’s a difference between pain (and discomfort and effort) and injury. When we’re in “pain” we often give up. Now, I’m not talking about doing things that create injuries, more the things that we say: “oh what a pain that is” about. Injuries are when things get damaged and need to heal. Pain, discomfort, and the…
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell and a hell of a heav’n. – John Milton Are you making a “hell” of your “heaven?” What about making a “heaven” of your “hell?” Because both are based in thought, they are equally possible. Our lives, or at least…