GET REAL AND GET HAPPY

GET REAL AND GET HAPPY!

What an “eye-opener!” This delicious topic began from a simple thought about compassion, that was given to me while I slept. As I’ve grown to become inspirited, I awakened and immediately recorded the word “compassion” and began my journey. Compassion is a Primary Law and a prime virtue when a person is moved by the suffering or distress of another, and by the desire to relieve it.

Compassion is empathy (identification with and understanding of another’s situation, feelings, and motives) not sympathy . Compassion is the highest vibration of the Law of Tolerance. "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy" is the Law of Compassion. First, we must have compassion toward ourselves, for we too are suffering and in distress. We find our relief when we find our True Self and when we find our True Self we are compelled to have compassion. We then begin truly finding our way home. Happiness is the WAY.

Perhaps others are seeking their way home also. Herein will I share this recording about happiness with THE EUREKA SOCIETY and hopefully, we with others. These quotations contain broader and deeper meaning, but are no less, simple. Simplicity is the essence of understanding. All you have to do is be receptive and allow these words to engraft themselves into your NOW. Please remember, words do not teach; words stimulate thought and thought is the beginning of co-creation, as we are connected to THE CREATOR and THE CREATOR ANSWERS!

Let us go forth in thought.

- Happiness begins when we see that we are the source of our own unhappiness.

Be Blessed and Become a Blessing

gman

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Quotations:

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.- Wendell Berry

People who’ve had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they’re bland… An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That’s the gift you’re given. - Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

The difference between happiness and unhappiness is the difference between expectations and reality. - Michael Cummings

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost

The people who are truly happy in life are happy in spite of something, not because of something. - Matthew Keister

Now let’s talk about love. The best definition I’ve ever heard is very simple; you love someone to the degree that their happiness becomes essential to your own. - Eric S. Raymond

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle - (384-322 BC)

Happiness is a halfway station between too little and too much.

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. - Horace Friess

For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. - Aldous Huxley

I was trying to explain to someone recently the difference between the intoxication of infatuation, and the happiness of a long-time love. It’s hard to explain, really. Infatuation has energy and excitement. It’s a high. It’s like the first drop on the roller coaster—exhilarating and terrifying all at once. Long-term love is sweet and slow and solid and secure. It’s knowing that someone knows you—knows all about you, knows what you like, knows how you think. Infatuation takes your breath away; love takes your fears away. - Liz Lawley

Are you happy in your work? If not, you are committing one of the worst “offences” against yourself. - Book: “The Joy Of Stress” by Peter G. Hanson

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. - Henry Ward Beecher

You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don’t take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them. - Carisa Bianchi

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

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours… never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness. Your success and happiness lie in you… the great enduring realities are love and service… resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing—sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death—can take that love away. - Henri Nouwen

Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved,
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Zoroaster

It is smelling flowers in the spring and remembering what they smell like in the winter.

Denise - age 11, in "Children on Happiness"

“Reflections on the Secret of Happiness”

Each man’s necessary path, though as obscure and apparently uneventful as that of a beetle in the grass, is the way to the deepest joys he is suscptible of; though he converses only with moles and fungi and disgraces his relatives, it is no matter if he knows what is steel to his flint - Henry David Thoreau

Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. - Oscar Levant

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. - Ben Jonson

Q. “How Can You Tell If a Person Is Really Happy?”
A. Ask the man if he has the time. If he says time isn’t important, then he’s probably a happy person. - Miles - age 11, in "Children on Happiness"

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell - British mathematician & philosopher (1872-1970)

It’s good to be just plain happy; it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how…and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. - Henry Miller

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault

Love is the only one of the passions that includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. - J. A. Karr

The pleasure in giving a dinner is mostly the pleasure of giving yourself. The effort you take is your way of showing your company that you care about them enough to give them a good time. - Marguerite Kelly & Elia Parsons

Happiness cannot be bought; indeed, money has very little to do with it. - William Ogdon, The New York Times, 12/30/45

“How Can You Tell If a Person Is Really Happy?”
Get up close and count their worry lines. More than seven is bad news. - Jack - age 8, “Children on Happiness”

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. - Wayne W. Dyer

I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source [the family] than from any other—I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so. - Samuel Butler

Stop and make sure that everything you are doing right now is really what makes you happy. You can’t just live for some goal in the future and have that be everything, have that be it. Because that is what some people do. They get on this road and there are all these signs saying “This way, this way” but what if you get there, you get exactly what you wanted, but all the things that were wrong are still wrong. Then what?

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. - Charles L. Morgan

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not. - George Jean Nathan

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. - W.T. Ellis

A playful attitude infuses you with a sense of joy and positive emotions. It creates a frame of mind in which you naturally and automatically find more funny things going on around you. Cultivating your sense of playfulness is the key to learning to lighten up in the midst of stress. - Paul McGhee, Ph.D.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. - Anatole France

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music—that would be rest. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy. - Earl Nightingale

Yay smile! You should smile all the time, ‘tis good for the state of mental affairs. - Nicole Waxmonsky

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. - Kathleen Morris

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others. - William Lyon Phelps

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. - Dale Carnegie

Most people are searching for happiness. They’re looking for it. They’re trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That’s a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think. - Wayne W. Dyer

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. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

Having is not so pleasing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. – Spock TV: Star Trek

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley

Just when you think things have tended towards fray, life says ‘HAT!’ and brightens your day. - R.B. Boyer

Happiness is the by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. - Gretta Palmer

Happiness is just one thing. Growth. We are happy when we are growing. - William Butler Yeats

Money brings you food but not appetite, medicine but not health, acquaintances but not friends, servants but not faithfulness, days of joy but not peace or happiness. - Henrik Ibsen

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. - Timothy Dwight

I do not like the idea of happiness—it is too momentary. I would say that I was always busy and interested in something. Interest has more meaning than happiness. - Georgia O'Keefe

For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases their happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness. - Andy Rooney

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. - Baron de Montesquieu

You need a reason to be sad. You don’t need a reason to be happy. - Louis Sacher

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. - Dale Carnegie

You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness, for an empty mind grows bored and cannot endure itself. An empty mind seeks pleasure as a substitute for happiness. - William Lyon Phelps

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. - Foster C. Mcclellan

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! - William Hazlitt

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good happiness of one another. - Eustace Budgell

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole world, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. - Epicurus

The secret of a happy life is to accept change gracefully. - Jimmy Stewart

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living 24 crowded hours of the day. - W. Beran Wolfe

Happiness is not the object of life. Life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life. - George Bernard Shaw

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes if for happiness. - Mary Shelley [Mary Wollstonecraft]

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air—explode softly—and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. - Robert Fulghum

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. - Karl Friedrich Gauss

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, holeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

William H. Sheldon

Happiness is equilibrium. When the world shifts, you shift.

Tom Stoppard

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Thomas Jefferson

In case you ever run out of gift ideas, here’s a little tip: give me your laugh. Whether it’s mischievous, tender, loud, or quiet, simply give me a laugh from your heart. Your laughter brings me never-ending joy. - Helmut Walch

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer