BRINGING MORE HAPPINESS IN YOUR LIFE


To help bring more happiness into your own life, here are some strategies to try:

1. Nurture your relationships. Maintaining healthy love relationships and friendships can be a challenge. But those challenges, and the emotional development that inevitably come with them, can promote happiness.

2. Join the "movement" movement. Studies show that aerobic exercise is an antidote for mild depression and anxiety. "Happy minds reside in sound bodies," says Myers.

3. Act happy. A recent study at Wake Forest University showed that when people simply acted extroverted, they felt happier than when they acted introverted. Even introverts, said the researchers, can act extroverted and feel happier.

4. Nurture your spiritual side. Faith not only provides valuable support, but it's a way to focus on something other than yourself. "Study after study finds that actively religious people are happier, and that they cope better with crises."

~anon~

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Herbie Hancock
American Composer and Jazz Pianist

The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.


~anon~

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Anthony Robbins
Inspirational Author and Speaker

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs
Co-Founder and CEO of Apple Computer

"Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings."

Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Persian Sage and Poet

"If you just look at all that already exists in your life, all that you
already have: unlimited air to breathe, ample lighting to see, music to
hear, books to read, stars to dream by, trees to gaze at, floors to dance on, friends to cavort with, enemies to befriend, strangers to
meet, woods to walk through, beaches to comb, rocks to scale, rains to cleanse you, rivers to float you, animals to comfort you, you do have
to admit, there's more of it than you could ever, ever, ever spend."
(But try anyway. ;-)

Mike Dooley, a.k.a 'The Universe'
Inspirational Speaker, Author and Friend

“In falling and rising again we are always shown that same precious love.. that there lies the possibility…that someday…we might rise….never to fall again"

~anon~

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."

Alan Cohen
Inspirational Author

"The best way to say, 'I love you, God,' is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, 'Thank you, God,' is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now."

Don Miguel Ruiz
Mexican Author, Shaman and Teacher

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson
American Activist, Author and Lecturer

"Don't let the dazzling heights you aspire to scare you from getting started. After all, few could climb Mt. Everest tomorrow, though virtually all could begin preparing."¯

Mike Dooley

"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow--it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it."

Shakti Gawain
Author Of "Creative Visualization"

"You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents."

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887

Is it possible for the rose to say, 'I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?' Or is it possible for the lamp to say, 'I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people'? Or can a tree say, 'I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad'? These are images of what love is about.

Anthony De Mello, 1931-1987