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Category: Happiness
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The Search for Happiness is a popular pastime. We all look for the path that'll lead us to Happyville. So now comes the sad part of this tale. Many of us walk right past the trailhead. Sometimes we trip on the welcome mat and don't even stop to see what put the stutter in our…
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Everything's a movie. Just buy a bloody shirt already. Who needs the song and dance? It's not necessary to make a big production out of a daily (for most folks, anyway) habit. Yes, one should cover her bits. And yes, choosing items for one's wardrobe can be fun. I'm not totally thumbing my nose at…
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Gen X here and I'm not grumpy. I'm happy we're no longer a hot topic of conversation, although I understand many of my compadres are now referred to as sandwiches. The way I see it, there are lots of people older and younger than I am who do a bang up job of chasing after…
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a breakthrough at 22completely forgotten by 60the work, at the time, was truetrue to an ideal that never quite fitbut tenacity was the whole point of itkeep rewinding those spools of thoughtuntil an answer breaks through the membranein random perspectives and cloudy horizonsabsolute mastery of nothing awaitssweetly we shall slip into non-existenceand rejoice in…
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an absence of badpeace is but a quiet mindexistence exhales
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To self-educate is way better than to self-medicate. And hey, a gal doesn't want to go through life as a thwarted intellectual, does she? Turn up the dial, amigos. Your community is waiting. So what if your feet haven't found anything solid on which to stand? Build your base and let time manage the project's…
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Run after stuffwant and grovelall those pretty things …Butterfly wingsbeat against thepavementPaltry paymentnot worth the palpitationsFear the wordsAs aboveSo belowIntuitionMalnutritionAsk for deliverance fromIndecisionFulfillment is areckless passionBetter to laugh atall the bad influencesthat keep us coming back.
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And that dream! The glass-encased restaurant embedded inside the cave? There was even a waterfall. The setting was beautiful. A door opened onto a warm, cheerful dining room with long tables, red high-backed chairs, lots of candlelight, and flowers everywhere. Red and gold was the color scheme. Every station was supplied with wine and everyone…
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10. There are many worlds one can inhabit. 9. All we have to do is lose our way. 8. Trade in the standard-issue brain. 7. Grow a backbone and feathers. 6. (Our skin was always thin.) 5. Doors never stay shut. 4. Fate lives in caves. 3. Love likes nests. 2. Let…
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We incubate dreams. When they're ready, we get you to chase after them. We dangle a shiny wish right where you can't miss it. It's fun to watch you swoon and suffer as we raise the rod just a little bit higher. Such fine jumpers and leapers you are! One day you will all be…