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[Happiness]...enjoy your season in the Sun

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln Your actions create either happiness or sorrow. 

[Sleep] in heavenly peace...

  “The best sleeping pill is a clear conscience.” ― Dada J. P. Vaswani I am a vegan with a clear conscience, I sleep peacefully every night. “I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear conscience and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.” ― Lizbeth Gabriel, The Theater Of Dusk

[Compassion] one more time...with feeling!

“People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )” ― Erik Pevernagie JUST how difficult is it for one person to feel the injustice directed at another?

[Keep] it simple...for best results

“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.” ― Joshua Becker What's the ONE thing, that one joy, that's most important to you? Determine what that is and build your life around it. 

[Kindness] ...saved the world

  We don’t even have to be the one doing or receiving an act of kindness to feel the positive effects. By simply by seeing a kind act, we get all the proven health and feel-good benefits. Studies also show that kindness is contagious. Whether you see, do, or receive an act of kindness, you’re more likely to pay it forward! Be positive.  Be mindful. Be grateful. Be true. Be kind  Be Vegan ! “I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)” ― J. R. R. Tolkien

[Greed]...the glut of misery...

“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder. ” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Our current (#capitalist) economy is driven by spending huge amounts(advertising) to trick people into thinking that happiness is about buying things, and at the same time insisting that the only way to have a better, stronger economy is to produce more goods for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy these things. “Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Meditate]...not medicate

“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.” ― Thomas Carlyle When you want something you never had(peace of mind for instance), you have to do something you've never done.

[Positive] mindset, positive Force

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. — Yehuda Berg The worst thing a person can do in trying to change the world is to stand alone.

[The Force] of course...

“If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.” ― Philip G. Zimbardo The perception of what is good or evil can be manipulated, that is, it can be made a grey choice and almost every person can be pressured by external forces to be immoral in their actions.

[Thanks] brings more to thank...

“The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything;  the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.” ― Hannah Whitall Smith Gratitude wakes us to the limitless potential of the Universe, but thanklessness closes our eyes to it.

[Choose]...the good

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets At the last, it doesn't matter how hard the choice was to make. What really matters is that you did.

[Equal] human and imperfect

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons...  but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” ― Gloria Steinem Other than for procreation,  gender has no role in society.

[Facts)...nothing but

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle   Fear is the second greatest motivator. The first, thankfully is love. “If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451