Here’s a 3 minute inspirational movie about finding joy, filled with a lot of quotations.
I enjoyed it!
Karin

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I thought this quote had both teeth and power. So often when unfortunate things happen folks say the latter phrase which is hardly helpful.
Karin
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. -James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist [...]

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Norris Burkes had another thought provoking column this week.
Andi Bowsher, author of Praying the Pattern …says , “Paul [when he said to pray without ceasing] was suggesting making life into prayer rather than making prayer into a life.”…I can spend all week praying for fresh inspiration and still get nothing but a frustrated editor muttering [...]

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So what can you do to maximize happiness and minimize the opposite?
Some things seem like common sense (not revolutionary):
…the revolutionary idea that true happiness lies in building on our strengths, not rooting out our flaws. Liz Seymour
If I’m going through hard times, I try not to beat myself up over it. That just [...]

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H = S + C + V
Happiness = Set Point + Conditions of Your Life + Volunteer Activities
The S and C account for …60% of our happiness. “But that still leaves 40% which is really quite a lot.” [Lyubomirsky] Liz Seymour
I’d like to know where they get their percentages. I think there are [...]

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…things, whatever their number, contribute surprisingly little — somewhere between 8 and 15% — to our sustained happiness. Variables such as age, education, health, income, personal appearance, and even climate are ineffective at overriding our genetically determined set point.
…external factors have little impact on our level of happiness…our brains…turn out to be amazingly adapable [...]

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Here’s another way to deal with negativity. Likely it works. She is a motivational speaker.
If I don’t know what to do or don’t have a clear sense of my path, I wait. (That’s not to say I sometimes don’t wait and act precipitously.)
How about you?
Karin

I was having a conversation with a radio [...]

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[One] You can’t change your genes, but you can tinker with the essential wiring of your brain. Selective serotonin reuptake [this is such an interesting word to me…and has some spiritual parameters, even the next word, ‘inhibitors’] inhibitors, such as Prozac, Zoloft, and others work to prolong the action of serotonin, the brain chemical [...]

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[The late David Lykken, a professor at the University of Minnesota, concluded, based on 3 decades of research on twins, much of it identical twins raised apart] that 50% of our proclivity for happiness or for melancholy (our ’set point’) is determined by our genes.
“From person to person, the variation is really quite large,” says [...]

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Maybe, I put blinkers on, but I can’t remember any miserable times in my life. I see the present moment as a sacrament. It’s all about sacrament — eating, conversing, being with friends, telling a good joke and making people laugh. Sister Immaculata Knox
Seeing the human and divine coincidence in the particular, [...]

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How do you learn best? How do your children learn best, if you have children? When I think of learning, some part of me remembers Elle Woods in the movie Legally Blonde. She has a refreshing learning style, wrapped with compassion and kindness. And she always comes out on top. [...]

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I came across this quote after I was thinking about what dreams the older women might have held or what the younger women expected from life. I loved the idea of nourishing and protecting our dreams, nursing them through bad days.
Not every dream comes to fruition effortlessly. Some take a good deal [...]

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Positive Feedback
From Kindness: Making a Difference in People’s Lives: Formulas, stories, and insights
By Zelig Pliskin
Some people identify themselves with their faults, weaknesses, and limitations. This weakens and limits them. Others identify themselves with their virtues, skills, and positive qualities. This strengthens those people and brings out their best.
Identify yourself with your strengths and virtues. [...]

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An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart. -Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- )
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. -Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)
…we have a [...]

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‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ the 1946 movie with Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey. I googled ‘what if I had never been born movie’ …up popped this familiar film, with this Plot Outline: “An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.” Clarence [...]

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What a great interview!
Karin
Now, to answer your question, we might want to look for another analogy: Music. The perfume formula is like the notes on a piece of paper. To make a symphony alive you need musicians and instruments. Good musicians and good instruments. The music that you hear is then the manifestation [...]

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To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking. Hugh Downs
Forgiveness is not an elective in the curriculum of life. It is a required course, and the exams are always tough to pass.
Charles Swindoll
These two quotes happened [...]

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My kids are all ready to go, from age 9 to 21, plus assorted other 18 to 20-something year olds, including two who are driving up from about 3 and 5 hours south of here. We are having a reading party all night, even for the non-HP fan, who is going in costume but [...]

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Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still. … Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more [...]

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I’m currently reading Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual optimism. Again, I got this from the library until I knew if I would like to own it. (I’m currently reading several of her books, serially.) Much of the book has illustrations of various types of new-agey helps that she [...]

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A valuable principle to keep in mind is: Leave people feeling better about themselves as a result of having met you.
Some people take pleasure in putting others down. It makes them feel more powerful to make others feel lower. In reality, the perpetration of such a crime lowers and demeans the perpetrator rather than the [...]

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