Be, Happy

happiness is a function of allowing life to happen be a light unto yourself be a mirror to the world

[ah-this]

The ability to work hard is also a talent.

- Kasparov

[ah-this]

I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

-Benjamin Barber

[artist-pissarro]

Laundry and Mill at Osny, 1884, Camille Pissarro

Medium: oil,canvas

[ah-this]

There is ugliness in this world. Disarray. I choose to see the beauty.

[huariqueje]

Nature morte aux coquelicot ,Still life with Poppies  -  Maurice Asselin

French, 1882-1947

Oil on panel,

[ah-this]

A good conversation is like a miniskirt; short enough to retain interest, but long enough to cover the subject.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Mark Twain (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[ah-this]

Everyone you will ever meet, knows something you don’t.

[ah-this]

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

[ah-this]

Whenever anybody dies anywhere, death knocks at your doors too. And not only a human being: a dog dies, a crow dies, or a leaf becomes pale and dies and drops from the tree – you are dying, because we are involved in each other, we are parts of each other, we are members of each other.

[ah-this]

Dynamic Optimism

INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE POSITIVELY:

(1) Selective Focus: Emphasizing the enjoyable, constructive, open aspects of life.

(2) Refraining from Complaining: Avoiding pointless complaining and whining about one’s difficulties. Taking the world as it is and not complaining that life isn’t fair.

(3) Questioning Limits: A constructive skepticism that challenges the limiting beliefs held by ourselves, our associates, and our society. A fundamental creative openness to possibilities.

(4) Sense of Abundance: Feeling free to do what you want, rather than feeling compelled by circumstances or people. Recognizing the world to be full of opportunities. Being for things, not against things.

(5) Humor: Seeing one’s own shortcomings with a sense of humor. Allowing healthy, good-natured humor to reveal new perspectives and combat dogmatic thinking.

INFLUENCING OUTCOMES POSITIVELY:

(6) Rational: Using reason rather than being lead by fears and desires. Objectively assessing situations and taking action based on understanding reality apart from our wishes.

(7) Self-Improving: Optimists see the self as a process and seek continual improvement. Their drive to improve is not pushed by fear but pulled by a inspiring self-image.

(8) Experimental: Frequently trying fresh approaches, staying out of ruts, actively seeking more effective ways of achieving goals, and being willing to take calculated risks.

(9) Self-Confident: Believing that we can bring about good things. A fundamental conviction of competence in living.

(10) Self-Worth: Believing one is worthy of success and happiness. Without this, attempts to improve one’s life will lack motivation.

(11) Personal Responsibility: Taking charge and creating the conditions for success. Being aware of how we determine our chances of success. This crucially involves integrity: living according to one’s values.

(12) Selecting Environment: Being attracted to positive people and situations. Seeking out those who will support and inspire, not discourage, distract, and undermine.

From: http://www.maxmore.com/optimism.htm

[ah-this]

Let life be as beautiful as summer flowers And death as beautiful as autumn leaves.

Rabindranath Tagore

[ah-this]

Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

[ah-this]

Accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don′t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn′t belong to you - you are just to be yourself. Relax! and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality and have the courage to sign your own signature. Then a grace arises. Then you are full of grandeur, splendor, harmony - because then there is no conflict!

[ah-this]

In compassion, you simply give. In love, you are thankful because the other has given something to you. In compassion, you are thankful because the other has taken something from you; you are thankful because the other has not rejected you. You had come with energy to give, you had come with many flowers to share, and the other allowed you, the other was receptive. You are thankful because the other was receptive.

[ah-this]

The greatest anguish in life is when you cannot express, when you cannot communicate, when you cannot share. The poorest man is he who has nothing to share, or who has something to share but has lost the capacity, the art, of how to share it - then a man is poor.

[ah-this]

Love never argues. When you argue, you assert. Assertion is violence, aggression. You cannot be in love with existence if you are argumentative. If you argue, you are closed; the whole existence closes to you.