Happiness is an integral aspect of living life every day— as long as I can and as well as I can. Of course, there are occasions when I do feel down. I am human, after all. [Living through the COVID-19 pandemic has not been much fun.] But unlike in the past, I strive to reach a happy place much more quickly than I ever did before. Feeling badly fixes nothing.
As part of my happiness endeavors, I haveacquired quite a hat collection. These hats are intended to generate a chuckle and lighten the mood—for me and others. Yes, I wear these hats on campus and to my classes, as well as when volunteering. I want my students and others to feel less stressed, too.
Here are several examples from my hat collection. Happiness is a choice!!!!
And this is a more serious happy hat to me.
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What makes me the most happy?
Being happy makes me feel alive and want to face the future in a proper frame of mind. My computer screen saver can turn a frown into a grin quite quickly. How? It rotates every picture saved on my computer—from vacations to parties to key events, and a whole host of other topics. If seeing a baby picture of one of your adult daughters or photos from key anniversaries of Linda and me don’t make you smile, what will? FYI: Setting up a screen saver with your photo albums is easy. Try it out. Be happy!
Let me conclude this rather brief, but important chapter, with several quotes. Remember, the whole book has focused on trying to be happy even in the most dreadful circumstances. Keep recalling the best day of your life.
From Good Reads: 20
“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama XIV
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” John Lennon
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life -- to be happy -- it's all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” Charles M. Schulz
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” Dale Carnegie
From Wisdom Quotes: 21
“Whenonedoorofhappiness closes, another opens, butoften we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the onethat has opened for us.” Helen Keller
“It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that give me true happiness.” Richard Branson
“Mymission in life is not to survive, butto thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” Maya Angelou
“Peopledon’tnoticewhether it’s winter orsummer when they’re happy.” AntonChekhov
“Inour lives, change and loss are unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.” Buddha
“Thebest way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” Mark Twain
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” Aristotle “There is onlyone happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” George Sand
From Brainy Quote: 22
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you designforthepresent.” Jim Rohn
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” Omar Khayyam
“Every day is a new day. You'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.” Carrie Underwood
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyondgrasp, but which, if you sitdown quietly, mayalightupon you.” NathanielHawthorne
“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” Bernard Meltzer
From Lifehack Quotes: 23
“The art ofbeinghappy lies in thepowerof extracting happiness from common things.” Henry Ward Beecher
“The key tobeing happy is knowing you havethe power to choose what to accept and what to let go.” Dodinsky
“The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the personwhothinksthemostinterestingthoughts, and we growhappier as we growolder.” William Phelps