Topic: HAPPINESS
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve
great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
4.Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of Luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be
able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t
bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds
your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
FROM THE DALAI LAMA
"A happy life consists in a mind which is free, upright, undaunted and
steadfast, beyond the influence of fear or desire." Seneca
Comment: A happy life depends upon where the mind is pointed. A mind can be pointed down
toward evil or a mind can be pointed upward toward God. Where the mind is pointed brings a
curse or blessing.
The highest enjoyment is that of being contented with ourselves. It is in order to deserve
this contentment that we are placed here on earth and endowed with liberty. -- Rousseau
Comment: The highest enjoyment is that of being in the hand of God, knowing you are in His
hand, and doing His will in your life. We are placed on earth to do God's will, not our
own. We are given freedom to see the true direction we point our heart...freedom to choose
evil or freedom to choose good.
Before we passionately desire anything which another enjoys, we should examine into the
happiness of its possessor. -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Comment: You can own a thing, but too often a thing will own you.
A happy life is joy in the truth. --Augustine
Comment: The truth is found only in God's Holy Word.