Category: Happiness
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My Rabbi
I am not now, and never have been, a Jew either religiously or ethnically, and it is certain that I shall never become one ethnically, and exceedingly probable that I shall never become one religiously. But if I were a Jew, and if Dennis Prager were a rabbi, then I should like to have him…
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Happiness . . .
. . . is nothing more than good health and a poor memory. (Adapted from Albert Schweitzer)
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Happiness and Outflow
Cogitative and seminal efflux are both in need of control, and it is reasonably surmised that control of either helps in the control of the other. It is more than reasonably surmised that control of both is necessary for happiness. But difficult it is to stem the tide of thought and seed.
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Memory and Happiness
It is we who supply the blood that enlivens the spectral vampires that haunt us from our past. A part of mind control is purgation of memory, and without mind control happiness is achieved with difficulty, if at all.
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Eric Hoffer on Contentment
Eric Hoffer as quoted in James D. Koerner, Hoffer's America (Open Court, 1973), p. 25: I need little to be contented. Two meals a day, tobacco, books that hold my interest, and a little writing each day. This to me is a full life. And this after a full day at the San Francisco waterfront…
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Middle-Sized Happiness
Life can be good. Middle-sized happiness is within reach and some of us reach it. It doesn't require much: a modicum of health and wealth; work one finds meaningful however it may strike others; the independence of mind not to care what others think; the depth of mind to appreciate that there is an inner…
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Ambition and Happiness
Viewed in one way, ambition is a good thing, and its absence in people, especially in the young, we consider to be a defect. Without ambition, there can be no realization of one's potential. Happiness is connected with the latter. We are happy when we are active in pursuit of choice-worthy goals that we in…