RECIPE TO HAPPINESS

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

- Ingrid Bergman

END

Today is the last official day of Term 1. YAY!!!

Life. It's moving. And all these feel so uber-duber exciting because, well, life goes on - unraveling as it should!

As so is depicted aptly in one of my favourite quotes, by Max Erhman :


"You are a child of the universe
no less than the tree and the stars;
you have a right to be here,
and whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
- Max Erhmann
 


Geez. Life sucks sometimes; but it is exciting at moments when it's not. 


Happiness : it is not just what you feel, but what you make out of.

HAPPINESS IS, BEING SIMPLE

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." 

Og Mandino

BE

'When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.'
 

Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

- Pablo Picasso

LEAD

"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
 

- Colin Powell, Chairman of the US joint chief staff, 1989 - 1993

ALICE

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don’t much care where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn’t matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you’re sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

DOING IN LOVE

Caught Tooth Fairy today.

"Doing something that you love is never a waste of time."

VISION

One particular statement that sort of wow-ed me during service earlier.

The place where Abraham was asked to sacrifice Issac - "Moriah" - means vision.



"If you don't have a vision to work forward to, you would not give your best sacrifice to it."

MOVE

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lighting wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."

"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move."

- Extracted from My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult



The onus is on we ourselves to move on. Or risk getting hit on the same spot over and over again. That's life; life moves on.

Go up a level. Move it.

DIFFERENT

"Why am I different from others?"








"Why... do you have to be like others?"

BETTER THAN

It is always more commendable to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Even if you fall flat on the face, you're still moving forward.



Move it, girl!

REPEATEDLY

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

VISION AND FUTURE

Without a vision for your future, you will always live in your past.

- A. R. Bernard

KNOWING AND HUMILITY

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

- Socrates

GRATITUDE

Experiencing gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it away.

- Anonymous

PERSONALITIES AND TRANSFORMATION

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Carl Jung

THINK, BEFORE YOU THINK

Heard this from somewhere some months back, and it has stayed with me ever since. Like a leech. It is simple; but yet the truth it holds is tremendous.

"If you think about something enough, you'll soon start to believe in it."



I guess this - in one swift and efficient summary - underlies and highlights one of the foundational truths of all times: the power of thoughts.

We see what we expect to see. But more than that, what we envision in our mind - sooner or later - gets translated into reality.



If you think about something enough, you'll soon start to believe in it.
Therefore, think, before you think.

PERCEIVING

PERCEIVING


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

OPINIONS

OPINIONS


"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by,
time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions.
Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."

- Plato, "Dialogues: Theatetus"


Admit it or not, but human always has this tendency to believe that whatever they say, or think, are right. No one is immuned to it. Even the best of man is susceptible to it. Oftentimes, though, time proves us all wrong. What we were once so firmly convinced is the best, is not really the best afterall.

Life is a journey. Of improvement; of advancement; of learning.

CHOICES


"Nobody can spoil a life, my dear. That's nonsense. Things happen, but we bob up."
- John Galsworthy, "The Forstye Saga"


Indeed, every decision is a matter of choice. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

We choose to fight on, or to give up. We choose to battle on, or to throw in the towel. We choose to persevere on, or to back out. We choose to work things out like adults, or to shrink away from responsibilities. We choose to cling on, or to let go. We choose to believe, or to doubt.





At the end of the day, it all boils down to only one thing - choices.