Tuesday, April 12, 2011

the happiness project


Began reading this book around New Year. The idea is intriguing and also... easy. Dedicate a year to consciously making your life better, making your life happier.


There's also a website w/ daily sources of inspiration, ideas, reflections. Here are some awesome quotes that have got me thinking, too.

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain


“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” Robert Louis Stevenson


"Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Luke 10:41-42


“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” Simone Weil


“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette


“It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” G. K. Chesterton


“A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.” Joseph Addison


“Best is good. Better is best.” Lisa Grunwald



“Order is Heaven’s first law.” Alexander Pope


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