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: | |
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 | |
Posts Tagged ‘Happiness’
The Grand Essentials
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Allan Chalmers, Essentials, Happiness, Hope, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on April 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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… |
Bringing It
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Happiness, Henry David Thoreau, Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Value on July 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to yourself. | |
— Henry David Thoreau | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Me Neither |
2019 | Have Forever |
2018 | Fear, Racism And Greed |
Reaching Out To The Missing | |
Very Nearly | |
2017 | We Can Figure This Out |
2016 | Just Enough |
2015 | Bourne Bond |
Springs Eternal | |
2014 | Brains First |
2013 | Not Listening Anymore |
2012 | At Your Marks! |
2011 | We Are Not Alone |
Underlying Rationality | |
2010 | Is the Obama Administration Failing? |
In Other Words… | |
Quite Please! | |
In A Hostage Situation… | |
Are We Done Yet? | |
In Order… | |
Flip-flopping… | |
Proof of Choice… | |
On “Leading” A Democracy To War… | |
Actually, It’s All About Me… | |
Maybe He Agreed With His Mum
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged George Orwell, Happiness, John Lennon, Philosophy, Quotes, The Key To Life on May 10, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We can only be happy when we don’t assume that the object of life is happiness. | |
― George Orwell | |
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. | |
― John Lennon | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Imagine Existence |
Posing As Action | |
2019 | Voices Of The Past |
2018 | Sunrises, Rainbows And Newborn Babies |
2017 | Untold Agony |
2016 | Just Borrowed |
2015 | Warning |
2014 | Always More Productive |
2013 | Is Not |
2012 | Loosely Translated |
2011 | Your Opinions Are Not My Facts |
Awakening The Glow
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Camus, Faces, Glow, Happiness, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Vocations on April 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him | |
— Albert Camus | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Golden Eagle |
Like #45: Incompetent Donald | |
2019 | #45: Who Lost By Three Million Votes |
2018 | Torn Between Two Loves |
A Girl And A Boy | |
2017 | I Think They Are Starting To… |
2016 | Living There |
2015 | Bookin’ West |
Beyond My Reach | |
You Never Call Anymore… | |
2014 | Winning? |
2013 | Still Inventing |
2012 | Motivated |
2011 | Waiting In Line At Starbuck’s |
Seeking Happiness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Activity, Fear, Happiness, Leo Tolstoy, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on March 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind . . . For love not only annihilates our fear of meaningless but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness. | |
— Leo Tolstoy | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Expectation For The Near Future |
2019 | Indian Myth |
Did He Even Have The Courage To Ask? | |
2018 | Nothing |
2017 | Approval First |
2016 | In Search Of Words |
Day 2 – Blending | |
2015 | At What Price? |
2014 | Intricate And Subtle Order |
2013 | Attention To Detail |
2012 | Aequanimitas! |
2011 | Consider This |
Blessings Larger Than Life
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Blessings, Giving, Happiness, Katharine Hepburn, Life, Philosophy, Quotes on March 17, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The giver is bigger than the receiver. If you want to be large, larger than life, learn to Give. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything. | |
The importance of giving, blessing others can never be over emphasized because there’s always joy in giving. Learn to make someone happy by acts of giving. | |
— Katharine Hepburn | |
(This quote was found on Facebook) | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | The Sun Came Out |
Not A Wink On Guard | |
2019 | The Importance Of A Deadline |
Chaos Is Not Really A New Remedy | |
2018 | History Will Judge Harshly |
Father Time, Perhaps? | |
2017 | Odds Are |
2016 | Prayer, Too |
2015 | History, n. |
2014 | See It Sometime |
2013 | Precious Friend |
2012 | It Couldn’t Be Done |
Feeling Surrounded? | |
2011 | Surprise! |
Little And Large Choices
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Attitude, Change, Choices, Happiness, Joy, Philosophy, Quotes on March 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Decide that Joy is the hue you want your heart to be. Then start making the little and large choices that over time will paint your heart happy. | |
— Thomas Kinkade | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | When? |
2019 | Two Guides |
2018 | A Call For You |
2017 | Because I Read |
2016 | On What Matters… |
2015 | Social Security |
2014 | Bewitching |
2013 | Visiting Joy |
2012 | Dedication To Today |
2011 | Project Second Chance – Adult Literacy |
Turning Coal Into Diamonds | |
Minute Fractions Of Happiness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Compliments, Happiness, Kisses, Life, Looks, Philosophy, Quotes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Smiles on November 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, or heartfelt compliment. | |
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Far Too Often |
2018 | A Divided / United Nation |
2017 | What We Want |
2016 | To The Extent |
2015 | Ambition |
2014 | More Branches To Climb |
Just In Time — Happy Thanksgiving (2014) | |
2013 | For And Against |
2012 | De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum |
2011 | Similar And Different |
2010 | Reminiscing |
Differences | |