It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. | |
— Max Planck | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Brevity And Decisiveness |
2021 | They Don’t And They Aren’t |
Deep And High | |
2020 | Social Distancing |
2019 | Touched? |
2018 | Chillin’ With My Bro |
Inconvenient Adventure | |
2017 | Genuine Tragedies |
2016 | Why I’m Scared Of November |
2015 | I Can Tell Too |
2014 | In Hand |
2013 | No Fear |
2012 | Comic Books |
Keeping The Peace | |
2011 | You Still Have To Pay For It |
Posts Tagged ‘Happiness’
Seek Truth
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Happiness, Max Planck, Philosophy, Quotes, Truth on May 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Necessities
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Compassion, Dalai Lama, Happiness, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on May 11, 2023| 2 Comments »
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion… This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. | |
Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need. So long as we practice these in our daily lives, then no matter if we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in Buddha or God, or follow some other religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy. | |
— Dalai Lama | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Threat Calculus |
7 (And 6) – 40 | |
2021 | Questioned By Life |
If There’ll Come A Time | |
2020 | Trying To Grow Pearls? |
2019 | Instantly Turned |
2018 | Sitting |
2017 | No Right Way |
2016 | Still Ticklish |
2015 | Maybe Sooner Than You Think |
2014 | The Path Of Mastery |
2013 | Love’s Ignorance |
2012 | Here’s To Enjoyment |
2011 | Not Just The Facts, Ma’am |
Old Math: It’s Actually Two
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged George Sand, Happiness, Life, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on April 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. | |
— George Sand | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | For An Extended Period |
2021 | Surrender With Hope |
A Little Grace | |
2020 | Two Midway |
Invisible Hands | |
2019 | Speaking Of #45 |
2018 | A Higher Loyalty |
RIP – Our Silver Lady | |
2017 | Slowly Cutting Their Own Throats |
2016 | Man’s Advantage Over God |
2015 | Deeply |
2014 | Hi-Yo Silver, Away! |
2013 | Warning: |
2012 | Thinking About Beauty |
2011 | A Founding Father’s Argument Against Public Funding Of Religious Education |
Weekend Update | |
So Far, So Good | |
After You, My Dear
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Giving Way, Happiness, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Steps, Winnie the Pooh on April 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Love is taking a few steps backward maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love. | |
— Winnie the Pooh | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | I’ve Lost My Share |
2021 | You Decide |
A Dream And The Wind | |
2020 | Making Me |
2019 | Inside Your Head |
2018 | Lingering Curiosity |
2017 | Just Kidding |
2016 | The Danger Of Walls |
2015 | Protection |
2014 | Let It Go |
2013 | Don’t Know And Not Telling |
2012 | A Challenge For Progress |
2011 | Dependent Difficulty |
Share Love
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Commands, Compassion, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Encouragement, Giving, Happiness, John 15:17, King James Bible, KJV, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Sharing, Talents, Time on January 20, 2023| 6 Comments »
These things I command you, that ye love one another. | |
John 15:17 | |
King James Version (KJV) | |
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. | |
― Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Biden Starts His Second Year |
2021 | DIY: Outdoor Gym Modifications (2) |
Inauguration Day 2021 | |
(Hopefully) Good-Bye To The Trump Dark Ages | |
2020 | Posting As A Continual Exercise |
2019 | Border Security – Yes, Border Wall – No |
2018 | Supporting Survival Values |
2017 | Inauguration Day 2017 [Sometimes, I hate it when I’m right! — kmab] |
2016 | Or A Pot Of Gold After The Storm |
2015 | One, Two, Three… |
2014 | Lend Your Hand |
2013 | Amnesty, n. |
2012 | Best Resolv’d |
The Clock Is Running | |
2011 | Magic |
A Strange Situation
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged A Divine Purpose, A Short Visit, Albert Einstein, Earth, Happiness, Philosophy, Quotes, Smiles, Well-Being on December 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Strange is our situation upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Small Moments, Lived Well |
Shaking My Confidence | |
2020 | Two Happy |
Every Time I Look Around | |
Boxing (Day: 3) – Double-End Target Setup | |
2019 | Stand Up, Hook Up, Shuffle To The Door… |
2018 | Ridiculous Idea |
2017 | Waddle On! |
A Severe Challenge — When The President Is A Liar | |
2016 | The Best Of Circumstances |
2015 | Reverberating Silence |
2014 | Wrong Again? |
2013 | Improper Faith |
2012 | One More Rung |
2011 | Sunday Morning Earlies (Hugging trees and smiling…) |
Hurry | |
Updates On Life | |
2010 | It’s Gettin’ Deep In Here |
Two Happiness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Bette Davis, Happiness, Philosophy, Quotes, Wayne Dyer on November 22, 2022| Leave a Comment »
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. | |
— Bette Davis | |
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. | |
— Wayne Dyer | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Still Trying To Understand |
V Memories From Saudi Arabia | |
2020 | Sometimes Just Being There Is Enough |
And I Owe It All To You | |
2019 | Or Live For It |
2018 | Happy Thanksgiving (2018) |
2017 | Grateful Humility |
2016 | Obstacles |
Election + 2 Weeks | |
2015 | Done What You Could |
2014 | Impossible To Other Men |
2013 | Just In Case |
2012 | Isn’t This Just Pleasant? |
2011 | No Void In Sight |
Wild Geese And Open Doors
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Doors, Gold, Happiness, Helen Keller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Philosophy, Quotes, Wild-Goose Chase on September 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. | |
— Helen Keller | |
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, ‘Here it is!’ like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find. | |
— Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Well Within Our Power |
Hammer Time | |
2020 | 3 November Is Coming! |
Bee Gees’ing | |
2019 | Senate Republicans: Impeachment – Because It Is Right! |
Dave’s Not Here, Man! | |
Mixing Business And Pleasure | |
2018 | Intensity Doesn’t Make It Correct |
HF2: 1940’s Grapes | |
2017 | Proof Sits In The Oval Office |
2016 | Tragic Determinism |
2015 | Maybe It Should Be Clearer |
2014 | Make It Your Strength |
2013 | Four Score |
2012 | The Ruler |
2011 | Forever |
2010 | Just Cuz |
How Do You Mend A Broken Heart? | |
It’s Alive!! (3rd Pair Shoe Review) | |
Moments Make A Lifetime
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Family, Happiness, Happy Birthday Rebecca, Life, Omar Khayyam, Philosophy, Quotes on September 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Happy Birthday, Bec! | |
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. | |
— Omar Khayyam | |
And congratulations (again) on starting the new job and being unopposed for re-election to the College Board! | |
We love you always, | |
Mum and Dad | |
XXX |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Strong Women Make Them Too |
Gather Moments | |
2020 | Another Opportunity |
Stand Up, Shout Out | |
2019 | Birthday Gifts For Our Daughter |
Feeling Age | |
2018 | Seeking To Make A Difference |
2017 | Happy BD, Bec! |
2016 | BD Quotes |
2015 | Princess |
2014 | Optional |
2013 | Happy Birthday, Rebecca |
2012 | Be Not Old |
2012 National League Western Division Champions!!! | |
2011 | What Kind Of Work Do You Do? |
2010 | Another Loser… And Come November |
The Grand Essentials
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Allan Chalmers, Essentials, Happiness, Hope, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on April 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | |
— Allan Chalmers | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | The Grand Essentials |
Second 40 | |
2021 | Adding Spice |
Be Who You Must | |
2020 | Mo, Cilla, Mushy Peas And Rain |
No New Wars | |
2019 | An Epitaph For #45 (#LyingDonald) |
2018 | Before And After |
2017 | Verbs |
2016 | Not Too Tidy |
2015 | Little Understanding |
2014 | Open Early |
2013 | Movies And A Lifetime Of Lyrics |
This Truth | |
2012 | Cheaper To Hold |
2011 | Resistance Is Futile |
One Great, One Enjoyable, One Terrible… | |
Unfortunately, No Approval Is Required | |
Particularly Peaceful Neighbors
Posted in Philosophy, Proverbs, Quotes, tagged Advice, China, Chinese Proverb, Happiness, Philosophy, Quotes, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin on April 22, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. | |
— Chinese Proverb | |
[Hopefully, this is what China advised Putin before he invaded Ukraine. If they did, he should have listened to their advice. (And, no, I don’t really think they said this to him.) — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Particularly Peaceful Neighbors |
2021 | Thoughts |
It’s A Rich Man’s World | |
2020 | Pax Et Justitia |
2019 | And Unlawful Orders From A President |
2018 | Instinct For Presence |
2017 | Hard Enough |
2016 | Jumps |
2015 | One View Of Failure |
2014 | We Speak For Earth |
2013 | Inward Urgency |
2012 | Delayed Reviews |
Fulfilling My Duty | |
2011 | Interference |
A Happy Realization
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Chief White Eagle, Faith, God, Happiness, Philosophy, Quotes, Thanksgiving on January 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith and acceptance; a quiet, tranquil realization of the love of God. | |
— Chief White Eagle | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | A Happy Realization |
2021 | Is Science Cumulative? |
We’re Aging With Time | |
2020 | Where #45 Is Leading The Republican Party |
2019 | Your Own Blog Posts |
The Man With A Code | |
2018 | Choose Goodness |
2017 | Developing Translations |
2016 | Think Like A Hero |
2015 | Reductionism |
2014 | Gravitation, n. |
2013 | Ups And Downs |
2012 | Nerd Heard – And Good-Bye |
Your Continuum | |
2011 | Career Tips (Part 2) |
A Loss Of Happiness
Posted in Music, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Art, Change, Charles Darwin, Delight, Happiness, https://www.themarginalian.org/, Music, Other Blogs, Other web sites, Philosophy, Quotes, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882 on December 8, 2021| Leave a Comment »
My mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years… Poetry of many kinds… gave me great pleasure… Pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight… But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry… Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving me pleasure. I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did. | |
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. | |
— Charles Darwin | |
From: “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882“ | |
[Originally found at one of the blogs / websites I follow: https://www.themarginalian.org/ | |
The specific post is: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/28/darwin-life/ | |
Please visit the original site if you have a some time… — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | A Loss Of Happiness |
Early Boy Band Choreography | |
2020 | Wear A Damn Mask! |
I Can’t Stay For Long | |
Boxing (#2): First Lessons | |
2019 | A Surprisingly Good Way |
It’s Official X-mas (Tree) At Home | |
2018 | Weight / Health Update |
What’s Happening With You? | |
2017 | The Great Leveler |
Conservative Depressions | |
2016 | Election + 1 Month |
2015 | Dance And Sing |
2014 | A Measuring Stick For Progress |
2013 | Courtly Love Or Victory Over Habit |
2012 | Have We Met? |
2011 | Efficiently Useless |
Why Republicans Are Unhappy
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Democracy, Happiness, Infidelity, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Republican Party, Thomas Paine on August 30, 2021| 1 Comment »
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. | |
— Thomas Paine | |
[If Republicans believe in Democracy and the right of the people to choose their government’s leaders, why have they spent almost ten months denying the results of (and trying to overturn) an election they lost so decisively? And why have they spent the same amount of time trying to limit the ability of voters to vote in future elections? Maybe T. Paine has explained the unhappiness (and rage) of current Republicans. When will the true political conservatives stand up and challenge the crazies who have taken over their party? Lord knows, they’ve been wandering in the dessert for over forty years now… — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Why Republicans Are Unhappy |
I Guess It’s True | |
2020 | A Tiny And Fragile World |
Your Lyin’ Eyes | |
2019 | Day 1: Done |
#IncompetentDonald Fails On All Three | |
2018 | I Put It Down To Bad Teachers |
Day 34: In And Out | |
2017 | And The Future Is Now |
2016 | I Am |
2015 | Positively Aiming Higher |
2014 | Suspicious Minds |
2013 | We Are Not Alone |
2012 | Lawyer, n. |
2011 | Each Day Remember… |
2010 | Impossible Dreams of Camelot |
Or The Person You Love
Posted in Philosophy, Proverbs, Quotes, tagged Flowers, Hands, Happiness, Japanese Proverb, Philosophy, Quotes on August 28, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. | |
— Japanese Proverb | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | The Chain Must Be Broken |
Back To Me… | |
2019 | Love Like This… |
2018 | Open Hearts Find Strength |
Day 32: Planning The Future | |
2017 | Thinking Out Loud |
2016 | Fighting Change |
2015 | Get Change |
2014 | Trapped (Again) |
2013 | Someone Else Believes |
2012 | The Practical Value of Science |
2011 | Seize Gladly The Difficult Task |
A Constitutional Conversation | |
2010 | The Fierce Urgency Of Now… |