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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 07:32 PM
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If You Could Force Yourself To Be Happy
What's wrong with being happy on Tuesday evening?

Yay!

(ps - watch An Inconvenient Truth - out on dvd today)
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 07:33 PM
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1. I don't think it's so much a matter of "forcing" as it is "choosing" to be Happy
:)

The Dalai Lama says the true address of Happiness is Right Here, Right Now....:D

:hi:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 07:34 PM
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2. If emotions could be chosen, hatred would cease to exist.
It's a matter of keeping emotions in check.

That's why I chose to go to the hospital 5 months ago. :)

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caty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 07:48 PM
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3. We are fortunate as human beings to have options.
Edited on Tue Nov-21-06 07:50 PM by caty
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman



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


Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
Gabriel Heatter


Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
Hermann Hesse

My favorite:

Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
And live every day as it it were your last.
~Irish Proverb



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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 07:51 PM
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4. Thanks!
good stuff

:thumbsup:
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