The Resolute Woman

Category: happiness

  • Dance first

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    I found this quote on a card by The Borealis Press. “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”—Samuel Beckett. I like the quote, but a word of caution. Dance first, but remember to think, too. Like most things in life, the secret is finding the right balance between thinking and dancing. –Joy

  • The best day

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    “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year,” Emerson once said.

  • The little things

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    “Delight in the little things,” Rudyard Kipling once said.

  • I’m walking again

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    It has been many months since I fell while walking my dog and shattered my femur. I had two surgeries. Then, I used a wheelchair and a walker. And, finally, a cane. Now I’m walking again. Without a cane! I am limping a bit, and I am a little slow. But, my good friend and…

  • A walk in the park?

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    “If you wake up in the morning and you have a choice between doing laundry and taking a walk in the park, go for the walk,” says Christine Lee. “You’d hate to die and realize you have spent your last day doing laundry.” Christine Lee is one of the women whose photograph is featured in…

  • In spite of myself

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    “The supreme happiness of life,” Victor Hugo once said, “is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, in spite of yourself.” I found this quote in a book called On Friendship—A Selection. The book was edited by Louise Bachelder. –Joy

  • Vacations make you happy

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    Experiences provide more happiness than material goods. That’s why vacations are a good value in terms of happiness-per-dollar spent, says Dr. Amit Kumar, a social psychologist at the University of Chicago, who studies the relationship between money and happiness. One reason is that people have more of a tendency to talk to their friends and…

  • A good book awaiting me

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    “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier,” said Kathleen Norris. And this has been especially true when I’ve been home for days with a broken leg. I found Kathleen Norris’ quote on stationery for book lovers. –Joy

  • Appreciation for simple pleasures

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    My husband Jerry and I were sitting in one of our favorite Mexican restaurants carefully surveying the menu—even though we knew that we would order the same thing we always order at that particular restaurant. All of a sudden, I blurted out, “I think I’m going to cry.” “Why?” Jerry asked, looking puzzled. “Because,” I…

  • Joy and well-being

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    Relationships are the strongest single predictor of joy and well-being, says Dr. Sue Johnson in her book Love Sense. “Ever since social scientists started systematically studying happiness, it has been resoundingly clear that deep and stable relationships make for happy and stable individuals.”