You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Andy Warhol

this is (not) psychology: The Ugly Side of Happiness

thisisnotpsychology:

Having too much of a good thing, even happiness, can turn out badly, warn experimental psychologists who study that warm, fuzzy feeling. When it comes to income levels, life expectancy, education and being attentive to risks, too much happiness can drag you down. “Psychologists have documented a set of cognitive deficits, dangerous in some contexts

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 (via oceanofmind)

I need a reminder now and then! :)

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I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now.

Willie Nelson (via oceanofmind)

a reminder now and again.

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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.

Anaïs Nin (via bruiseeasy)

Again, as I confess, story of my life.

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It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palahniuk (via kari-shma)

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx  (via quote-book)

I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

The Hours, Clarissa Vaughn (via andflowers)

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I am convinced that genuine happiness - because it makes people more peaceful, more giving, and more effective - has the power to change the world,” Raison says. “True happiness depends on our ability to turn down stress and immune pathway activity in the brain and body - doing so allows us to take full advantage of the tremendous evolutionary advantage offered to species with a capacity for cooperation, compassion and altruism. So I am obsessive about studying ways to safely turn down activity in those pathways, whether it’s pharmacological, psychological or spiritual.

DR. CHARLES RAISON, CNN Health