This is the year of the ‘Joy Jar’ exercise. The ‘Joy Jar’ is finding something to be grateful for every day. One of the revelations of the exercise is that happiness is not dependant on what one has or will have. Happiness is not dependent upon one’s circumstances. Happiness is the quality of what is. The Apostle Paul said in Philippians 4:11:
New International Version (©2011)
I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.
Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is happiness.
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Seven Deadly Sins
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
Gabriel García Márquez
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
Mother Teresa
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama XIV
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