[Vision2020] Happiness is a Choice

[lfalen]

Thanks for the email. Happiness is a choice. This reminds me of the story of the lady that went to the Nursing home. She said her room was ral nice and she liked it. The attendant said : but you haven't even seen it yet."  The lady said " I made up my mind bere I came that I was going to like it". Im glad you like Dennes Prager
Roger
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From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:41:34 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Happiness is a Choice

> Happiness is a Choice
> By Michael Josephson
> http://charactercounts.org/michael/
>  
> In a Peanuts cartoon, Lucy asks Charlie Brown, “Why do you think we were 
> put on earth?”
> 
> Charlie answers, “To make others happy.” 
> 
> Lucy replies, “I don’t think I’m making anyone happy,” and then adds, “but 
> nobody’s making me very happy either. Somebody’s not doing his job!”
> 
> People like Lucy are so sure happiness is a matter of getting something 
> that they ask not what they can do for others but what others can and 
> should do for them. They usually feel shortchanged or cheated. They become 
> so preoccupied with what they don’t have that they can’t enjoy what they 
> do have.
> 
> What’s more, they don’t realize one of the best ways to be happy is to 
> experience the joy and self-worth of making others happy. 
> 
> In his book Happiness Is a Serious Problem, Dennis Prager argues that it’s 
> human nature to want and feel we need more. The problem is, the quest for 
> more is endless because we can always add more to whatever we have. As a 
> result, the Lucys of the world often live in an “if only” world that keeps 
> them one step away from happiness: “If only I get this raise, make this 
> sale, pay off my debts, or win this game, I’ll be happy.”
> 
> Abraham Lincoln understood that happiness is essentially a way of looking 
> at one’s life. “A person is generally about as happy as he’s willing to 
> be,” he said. 
> 
> Thus, we’re more likely to experience happiness if we realize it’s not 
> just getting what we want. It’s learning to want what we get. 
> 
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> 
> Stay healthy.  Stay happy.  Stay informed.
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>  
> "For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
> Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
> to work."
> 
> - Roy Zimmerman
> 
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