Category: Happiness

Take the conditions off your happiness

October 11, 2013 | 8 comments

Do you ever qualify your happiness? For instance… You’re looking at a long to-do list for the day and you complain, “Oh what a burden. Once I get through this list, I’ll be happy.” Or, you stand in a long

Are you happy over others’ merits?

October 4, 2013 | 6 comments

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t’were his own. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It warms me to remember that there is no competition

What makes you happy?

August 30, 2013 | 6 comments

We painted the inside of our house last month. It was needed! After the lengthy and involved project was finished, I sat in the middle of the living room and looked at the sprightly painted walls glimmering and shining in