Narayan Gupta discovers her friends secret. He explains to her how writing two simple things have given him everything in life. They have filled him up and made him feel like he wants to share. They have have made him a trust-worthy and wealthy person. They have made him popular and well liked. They have made him remember who he really is and how he wants to live life. What are the two things he wrote down? What is the secret to all happiness and success?
Once a woman visited her best friend Jagjit. Jagjit went to buy some food so they could eat together and she found herself in Jagjit's room. She saw an altar that had inspiring pictures on it. It also had dazzling and expensive jewels on it, "Wow!" She thought. In the center of the altar was a book that had the most exquisite and intricate art work. The title was written on gold and studded with diamonds. It said, "The Secret To All Happiness And Success". It was the most beautiful and expensive book she ever saw. She thought, "What could possibly be written in this book??!"
I’ll be happy when I get to high school, when I get to the college I want, when my career is set, when I have money, when I have no mortgage, when I retire, when my kids are set, consistently we push our happiness away, instead of embracing it.
They forget who they were and focus on who they want to be. If you don’t let go of your past then you won’t find your future. They are sure of themselves and stick to their guns. Uncertainty is the key component of failure.
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"Seeing a smile creates what is termed as a 'halo' effect, helping us to remember other happy events more vividly, feel more optimistic, more positive and more motivated."
What exactly is happiness? This is not just a rhetorical question. We think we know when we have it and also when it has been stolen or denied. The past can be instructive. Sometimes what seems wonderful at the time turns out not to be so after all, and what seemed to be awful at the time turns out wonderfully after all.
A growing body of research has identified one reliable path to greater personal happiness: engaging in a rewarding activity — particularly one that involves doing something nice for someone else.
Studies show that half of happiness is determined by genetics, and a little under 40 % is governed by the impact of external events. You own the 12 % of the package that’s left, however, and it turns out that the choices you make within that sliver make all the difference between being happy or not.
Meditation, compassion, acceptance and love stick out as major Sikhi concepts incorporated in this Huffington Post article. "...modern science has validated a number of teachings and beliefs rooted in ancient wisdom that, up until now, had been trusted but unproven empirically."
How high to you prioritize you health?Making an effort to listen to these five wellness clues, and make specific changes to your lifestyle habits, is one of the simpler ways least expensive to perhaps drastically improve your health and long term happiness to ideally avoid the need for “sick care.”
Whenever i feel fear, hurt, dissonance, i must ask: what can i do for myself to nourish all that’s inside? how can i give love? how can i soften the edges of this pain?
Is it? As women of today, the word “submission” doesn’t immediately bring to mind “love”, “happiness”, or “comfort”. Yet in truth, submission sometimes does make us happy. But no, Grey, it’s not that simple.
Seva is the concept in Sikhi that defines the sharing of one’s life with others. It defines giving unto others in need, not only because of their need but, more importantly, because it sates our own inner need to share and give.
Meesha Salaria is a seven-year-old author and entrepreneur. What makes this particular young writer so inspirational is that her first book, Start, was written when she was only six and contains no editing on the part of her mother or any other professional editor.
We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering – and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy – we cling on to them.
Recognizing problems attending a growth-driven economic sprint in other developing countries, in the early 1970’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to make his nation’s priority not its G.D.P. but its G.N.H., or gross national happiness.
Next Monday, the United Nations will implement Resolution 65/309, adopted unanimously by the General Assembly in July 2011, placing “happiness” on the global agenda.
Problems and bad news abound everywhere; but wisdom lies in taking note of small incidents of joy that can bring happiness and touch our lives every now and then.
Why did couples go on having children even though the data clearly showed that parents are less happy than childless couples? Why did billionaires desperately seek more money even when there was nothing they wanted to do with it?
Having power over others and having choices in your own life share a critical foundation: control, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The paper finds that people are willing to trade one source of control for the other.
“We call it a bank because we want to bring forth a new set of values”, says Tiina Urm, a 26-year-old who helped to think up the idea and is the closest thing that the Bank of Happiness has to a manager.
