Category: happiness
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Joy in little things
I’m still cleaning, and I’ve found lot of bookmarks—additions for my bookmark collection. Some are decorated with bits of wisdom. Here’s one I like. Joy is in little things— A little cat, A little book, Time spent reading in a cozy nook. –Joy
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Laugh as much as possible
I’m still cleaning, and I’ve found lot of bookmarks—additions for my bookmark collection. Some are decorated with bits of wisdom. Here’s one I like. “Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives,” Maya Angelou once said. –Joy
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Who is happy?
“Whoever is happy will make others happy, too,” Anne Frank once said. We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club meeting. –Joy
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The joy of walking
The writer Virginia Woolf walked as a cure to depression—and often she came up with scenes and plots for her books during her walks, says Kerri Andrews in her book Wanderers. “Oh, the joy of walking,” Woolf once wrote. “I’ve never felt it so strong in me…the trance like swimming, flying through the air, the…
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Walking is a good use of time
In her book Wanderers, Kerri Andrews quotes Linda Cracknell about the benefits of walking. Walking, Cracknell says, “helps keep alive older ways of being…. “There was always something to watch, some association to remember, changes in light and sound and fragments of poetry and local lore to think about…. “Long hours walking were not time…
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Gratitude for life
William was “awash in gratitude for his life,” writes Ann Napolitano in her novel Hello Beautiful. How wonderful—to be awash in gratitude for your life!
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To cope with life
“We do need humor to cope with the absurdity of human reality,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.
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To enjoy life
“If we enjoy the absurdity of life, we will enjoy it more,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.
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The beauty of nature
“Nature is always less gaudy than I remember it,” Hernan Diaz writes in his book Trust. “It has much better taste than I.”