Sunday, February 7, 2010
Happiness ingredients, Amy Bloom
The fundamentally sound, Sure-Fire Top Five Components of Happiness: 1) Be in possession of the basics--food, shelter, good health, safety. (2) Get enough sleep. (3) Have relationships that matter to you. (4) Take compassionate care of others and of yourself. (5) Have work or an interest that engages you.
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty; part of its glory lies in its transcience. ..To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.
NY Times January 31, 2010
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty; part of its glory lies in its transcience. ..To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.
NY Times January 31, 2010
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