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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit
Aristotle
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues
Bertrand Russell
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear
J. Krishnamurthi
There is no being; all is becoming
Heraclitus
True friends stab you in the front
Oscar Wilde
No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it
Albert Einstein
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence
Robert Frost
He who does not trust enough will not be trusted
Tao Te Ching 23
It’s fun to have fun, but you have to know how
Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss)
If you wanna fly, you got to give up that shit that weighs you down
Toni Morrison
Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward
Soren Kierkegaard
There’s more to life than increasing its speed
M. K. Gandhi
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation
C. S. Lewis
Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace in it.
Goethe
Every sinner has a future; every saint a past
Oscar Wilde
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine
Meher Baba
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is not destine to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions
Marcel Proust
Time passes, and little by little, everything we have spoken in falsehood becomes true
Marcel Proust
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Albert Einstein
The soul that seeks beauty may sometimes walk alone
Goethe
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware
Martin Buber
It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society
J. Krishnamurthi
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle or you can live as if everything is a miracle
Albert Einstein
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric
Bertrand Russell
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy
Wendell Berry
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
Goethe
Pack lightly. And leave yourself behind
Ivan Granger
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become
Charles DuBois
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf
Rabindranath Tagore
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity
George Carlin
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too
Paulo Coelho
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face
Nelson DeMille
Courage lies in the power of self-recovery
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
Oscar Wilde
Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it
Rumi
Your living is determined not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens
Kahlil Gibran
Those who dance are thought mad by those who don’t hear the music
Unknown
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men would rather die than think, and most men do
Bertran Russell
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly
Richard Bach
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do
Henry Ford
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man
G. B. Shaw
We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are
Anais Nin
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
Ronald Reagan
A house divided against itself cannot stand
Abraham Lincoln
If anyone hits you on one cheek, offer him the other as well
Jesus, Matthew 5:39
We can do no great things. We can only do small things with great love
Mother Teresa
Be the change you wish to see
M. K. Gandhi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Nothing that you can give away is ever really yours
C. S. Lewis
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How do we connect with other people? Although researchers do not fully understand how connections develop, what is well known is that non-verbal behaviors play a very important role. What’s also becoming increasingly obvious is that seeing other people connect makes us—passive observers—feel happy. The feeling of happiness that comes from watching other people be [...]
Hi, I’m Raj. I am an associate professor of marketing at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin. For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in what makes me—and the others around me—happy. What are the true determinants of leading a happy and fulfilling life? That’s the question I now try to answer in my research.© Copyright 2012 Happy Smarts by Raj Raghunathan · All Rights Reserved · | Sitemap
