“Materialism is a cycle. Unhappiness tends to lead to materialism which feeds back into those feelings of unhappiness.”
― Christine Carter, Shopping is not a Happiness Strategy
Category: Thursday Thoughts
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“How come your family knows how to push your buttons? Because they installed them…”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
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Unlike learning a new language, practicing gratitude can be blissfully simple. Just count the things in your life that you feel thankful for.
—Christine Carter, Making Gratitude Real
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“Our success and happiness are based as much on what we choose NOT to do as what we choose to do.”
—Christine Carter
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“Let others be consumed with the chase if they choose to, while you learn to relax. Rather than focusing outward, turn inward.”
—Wayne Dyer, paraphrasing Lao-tzu in the Tao Te Ching
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“The perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.”
—Rebecca Solnit
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“I’ll take a small success over an ambitious failure any day.”
–Christine Carter
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“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.”
Sally Karioth
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You cannot lead where you do not go. –Author Unknown
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To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one’s own heart— this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
Mary Baker Eddy