Happiness in less than 200 characters
This excerpt from the "Goals" chapter of The How of Happiness is great:
In 1932, weighed down by the sorrows and agonies of his self-absorbed and aimless clients, an Australian psychiatrist named W. Béran Wolfe summed up his philosophy like this: "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, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert."There's other choice quotes in that chapter. G.K. Chesterson said, "There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner." And Robert Louis Stevenson said, "An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." I agree with this philosophy. My version:
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The mind is software, and we are merely programmers. Where is the manual, though? Here is a site for people not only interested in self-help, but also the mechanics behind it.
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