Tag Archives: Happiness

Reality: Simone Weil

Posted on 22/05/2013 by layanglicana

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. Simone Weil 1909-1943 Gravity and Grace 1952 The image is copyright: sniegirova mariia via … Continue reading →

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Listening: Erich Fromm

Posted on 12/05/2013 by layanglicana

We listen to every voice and to everybody but not ourselves. We are constantly exposed to the noise of opinions and ideas hammering at us from everywhere: motion pictures, newspapers, radio, idle chatter. If we had planned intentionally to prevent … Continue reading →

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Creating Happiness: George Bernard Shaw

Posted on 01/05/2013 by layanglicana

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 Candida, Act I (1898) The illustration is copyright: LilKar via Shutterstock

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Happiness: Alice Meynell

Posted on 26/04/2013 by layanglicana

Happiness is not a matter of events ; it depends upon the tide of the mind. Alice Meynell 1847-1922 Prose and Poetry The illustration is copyright: Rachel L. Sellers via Shutterstock Quite. Alice Meynell here identifies bipolar syndrome – before … Continue reading →

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Joys And Sorrows: Kahlil Gibran

Posted on 12/04/2013 by layanglicana

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in … Continue reading →

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Happiness: Dr Johnson

Posted on 10/04/2013 by layanglicana

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Dr Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 There is always ‘The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness‘, but somehow I … Continue reading →

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Happiness: John Stuart Mill

Posted on 19/03/2013 by layanglicana

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. J S Mill 1806-1873 Autobiography, Ch. 5 The illustration is copyright: Rakic via Shutterstock

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The Point Of Bridge: Hugh Walpole

Posted on 11/03/2013 by layanglicana

One man I know is happy only when he is playing bridge, but as he plays bridge morning, noon and night he is always happy. Hugh Walpole 1884-1941 Roman Fountain (1940) The illustration is copyright: Everett Collection via Shutterstock

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Imagination: Virginia Woolf

Posted on 07/03/2013 by layanglicana

How entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend on spurts of thought coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind  and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness. Virginia … Continue reading →

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Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour: Francoise Hardy

Posted on 06/03/2013 by layanglicana

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to embed this video and you will be taken to YouTube. Le premier bonheur du jour C’est un ruban de soleil Qui s’enroule sur ta main Et caresse mon épaule C’est le souffle de la … Continue reading →

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