Happiness - Finding It and Holding On To It

Hi All,

Wow - what an ambitious topic I chose for this blog entry!

Happiness - it seems like a vague, general term. How can we find it and keep it and share it?

Indeed - these are some of the topics that I'll discuss in this entry.

First - click on this link for a good definition of happiness - link is from Wikipedia. This next link goes to website called 'The Pursuit of Happiness' - from an organization called The Pursuit of Happiness. This site has an interesting link to the history of happiness. Click here for that very link.

How does one 'become happy'? Indeed, great question. Click on this link for a site that claims to have figured out two components of 'how to be happy'. Hint: gratitude and appreciation are factors in happiness.

So, why is happiness so important? Clicking on any of these three links will get you started to figuring out why happiness is so important.

Lifecoachexpert.com

Selfcreation.com

Happiness Show.com

Evidently folks who create quotes and wrote poetry think happiness is very important. Click on this link from Motivating Quotes.com. Some of the quotes are pretty darn funny, clever and insightful.

Enjoy the links!

Stu

Marriage Quotes

Hi All,

Trying to come up with an idea for a blog entry today was somewhat difficult this morning. My thought process went something like this...

Checked online version of Newsday for some local news or tidbit to write about. Nothing of interest really appeared. I did see the Obits byline at the top of the page though. I thought about an entry talking about obituaries - that's too easy. Just go to the Social Security Death Index page from Rootsweb.

Besides a blog entry about obituaries is too depressing for this time of the year. I wanted something more upbeat and a bit less depressing. So...I looked for sites that had birth announcements...no such luck and what I did find were sites that actually sold the birth announcment itself. Not what I was looking for.

What about marriages? Hmmmm...I felt like I was getting a bit closer to a good idea for a blog post. What about marriage announcements? Okay - click on this link from the New York Times to see some fancy marriage announcements in and around New York City.

More to the point, I was looking for a whole bunch of quotes about what marriage does to a man and a woman; and to the relationship. Lots of the quotes talk about change and what happens after the honeymoon is over. There is a bit of truth in each and everyone of these quotes related to marriage. You'll see. And some of them are very, very clever - all of them are, in one way or another true.


This next set of married related quotes comes from QuoteGarden - an interesting quote related website. Note that if you want to find a particular word on the page, just click on the Edit option at the top left side of the page. When the drop down menu appears, click on the Find option and a dialog box will appear where you can type in the word you are looking for. Upon hitting the enter key the first appearance of the word will be shown. Hitting enter again will show the next appearance of the word you are looking for.

Finally, click on this link from Poemslovers.com for yet more quotes on the worlds oldest institution: marriage.

Enjoy the links and the quotes!
Stu