What makes you happy? I’m sure if you ever complained to your parents that you weren’t happy, they may have told you that you can’t be happy all the time. But sometimes happiness is a state of mind. You probably know people who seem to be happy every time you see them. They are ready to smile and look on …
What Makes You Happy?
Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. ~~Benjamin Franklin Where do you feel happy? And if you found such a place, how often would you make every effort to go there? This would be a place where you would feel loved and worthy and safe and …
Where Do You Find Happiness?
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. ~Sharon Draper Do you have a place where you feel happy? A place that gives you happy moments? If you knew where such a place is, how often …
How Can Anybody Be Happy All the Time?
August 31, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky where you have to make up stories to have something happen in our little town. Well, that’s not always true. There was all that stuff that happened last year. Some of it was good. A lot of it not good at all. I’d tell you all about it but it …
Happiness is a Poem and a Flower
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” (Hal Borland) “Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.” (Bill Nye) I’m wishing I could spot some little spring beauty flowers like those above, but not yet this year. Those little blooms are still sleeping under the snow that has stuck …
Joy, Happiness and Just Plain Fun
Fun with Mystery Photos I hope you’ve been having fun with my mystery photos.Wednesday’s photo stumped most of you. Maybe because it was sort of fuzzy after I snipped out the little bit to try to trick you. Take one last guess and then look down a few paragraphs to see the “rest of the picture.” A New Photo …
Happiness is Another Book
“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) Happiness for me today is thinking about another book written. Another story told – difficult though it was to pry out of my head and onto my computer …
Happy Possibilities
Where do you feel happy? And if you found such a place, how often would you make every effort to go there? This would be a place where you would feel loved and worthy and safe and engaged in life. No boredom there. No hard testing. Except, of course, some of us are happiest when faced with challenges that we …
Happiness is a Form of Courage
How about some happiness quotes to lift the mid-week blahs? I don’t really have mid-week blahs, but I’ve heard some people say they do. One thing sure I won’t next week since my twin grandbaby boys should have discovered a bright new world by then. If I can get on line I’ll let you know their names. If Mom and …