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#happinessis #100happydays

71% of participants failed this simple, yet life-changing challenge, quoting lack of time. 71% of participants did not even find 5 min per day to be happy. Do you?

#happinessis #collectiveunconscious #uptothechallenge

Video producer and father of four, Nathan Ripperger, has caught himself saying the darndest things to his kids. It' just another day in the life of a parent, only Nathan decided to illustrat...

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“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again.”

-Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

#happinessis #fightingforhappiness #vulnerable #quote

As Good As it Gets

Melvin: You make me want to be a better man.

Carol: That's maybe the best compliment of my life.

#moviedialogue #romance #happy #conversation

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Random:

Coincidence: Ms. Magazine and me born in the same month and same year? Wonder Woman on the cover? I think Gloria Steinem & the universe were trying to tell me (&/or my mom) something. What exactly they're telling us, I haven't quite figured out.

#random #leanin #wonderwoman

A woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

#happy #women #strength #quote

Happiness is...

the process of art

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Happiness is...

putting on your comfortable shoes in the morning and not caring if the laces are twisted because you woke up with a big smile on your face

#submission #happyyou #happinessis #makesomeoneelsehappy

Happiness is...

Encouraging girls to be leaders. I was/am a bossypants and I'm proud of it!

#bossypants #women #strength #leadership #smarts #picture #happy

"As I grow in age, I value women over 40 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why: A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, 'What are you thinking?' She doesn't care what you think. If a woman over 40 doesn't want to watch the game, she doesn't sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do, and it's usually more interesting. Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it. Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it's like to be unappreciated. Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 40. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart. Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you are a jerk if you are acting like one. You don't ever have to wonder where you stand with her. Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, 'Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?', here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

-Andy Rooney* on women over 40

* or maybe not Andy Rooney at all..whoever said it is a smart man:

#strength #women #quote #happy

Happiness is:

Carnaval on a rare, cold, rainy night in downtown Tucson.

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Happiness is achieving terminal gravity. Providing all the right nutrients and parameters so that a living process can achieve the maximum result. The process may have ended, but the joy it brings has not yet begun.

#happy you #submission