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Happiness never decreases by being shared. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. Walk to the edge. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. There is nothing to forgive.
It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. It is appreciating what you have. Happiness is wanting what you get. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience.
Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. It's not what you're gonna get in the end--it's not the final curtain--it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.
Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success? Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.
Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. Petit Senn "To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. Barr "View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished?
What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't?
What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. Stevenson II "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to so good, to grow, give our best and no matter the results, we will win. And we won't be ignored. 8. “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no. Wilfred Peterson; "Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the Jim Rohn; "The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others. to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to .. Q: What will you soon use as a substitute for human labor?.
The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Eisenhower "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
Kennedy "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Drucker "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. It is the only thing. Maxwell "The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
It is about one life influencing another. Maxwell "You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see.
Notice how he walked freely among them, not travelling in an armored car surrounded by armed security men, like American Presidents! National Socialism — Epic Experience: Be proud and brave like our White ancestors! Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that.
Lee "The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. Solomon "In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men, the least government is the best government. It is very easy to say yes. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.
No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Try to please everybody. Morgan "If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. Agu "Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Drucker "When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.
A great leader leads the people from within them.
Arnold "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. Hesburgh "It is absolutely necessary You lead by going to that place and making a case. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
Chesterton "'Enough' is a feast. Kennedy "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Clark "If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day.
What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words.
Gratitude is shown in acts. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. Milne "Forget yesterday--it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow--you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift--today. Maxwell "In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
Southard "I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I'm going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others.
When you receive the information, if you think any of it is wrong or out of date, you can ask us to change or delete it for you. She lives in Boston. Brought to you by curio. Edited by Marina Benjamin. He kills his subordinates, chokes people with his mind, does all kinds of things a good guy would never do. But then the nature of a bad guy is that he does things a good guy would never do. This moral physics underlies not just Star Wars , but also film series such as The Lord of the Rings and X-Men , as well as most Disney cartoons.
Virtually all our mass-culture narratives based on folklore have the same structure: In Marvel comics, Thor has to be worthy of his hammer, and he proves his worth with moral qualities. In old folktales, no one fights for values. When characters get their comeuppance for disobeying advice, for example, there is likely another similar story in which the protagonist survives only because he disobeys advice.
Defending a consistent set of values is so central to the logic of newer plots that the stories themselves are often reshaped to create values for characters such as Thor and Loki — who in the 16th-century Icelandic Edda had personalities rather than consistent moral orientations. In stories such as Jack and the Beanstalk or Sleeping Beauty, just who is the good guy?
Does Sleeping Beauty care about goodness? Does anyone fight crime? Even tales that can be made to seem like they are about good versus evil, such as the story of Cinderella, do not hinge on so simple a moral dichotomy. In traditional oral versions, Cinderella merely needs to be beautiful to make the story work. Neither Achilles nor Hector stands for values that the other side cannot abide, nor are they fighting to protect the world from the other team.
The ostensibly moral face-off between good and evil is a recent invention that evolved in concert with modern nationalism — and, ultimately, it gives voice to a political vision not an ethical one. Most folklore scholarship since the Second World War has been concerned with archetypes or commonalities among folktales, the implicit drive being that if the myths and stories of all nations had more in common than divided them, then people of all nations could likewise have more in common than divides us.
It was a radical idea, when earlier folktales had been published specifically to show how people in one nation were unlike those in another. In her study of folklore From the Beast to the Blonde , the English author and critic Marina Warner rejects a reading of folktales, popularised by the American child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, as a set of analogies for our psychological and developmental struggles. Warner argues instead that external circumstances make these stories resonate with readers and listeners through the centuries.
Still, both scholars want to trace the common tropes of folktales and fairytales insofar as they stay the same, or similar, through the centuries. Novelists and filmmakers who base their work on folklore also seem to focus on commonalities. J R R Tolkien used his scholarship of Old English epics to recast the stories in an alternative, timeless landscape; and many comic books explicitly or implicitly recycle the ancient myths and legends, keeping alive story threads shared by stories new and old, or that old stories from different societies around the world share with each other.
Less discussed is the historic shift that altered the nature of so many of our modern retellings of folklore, to wit: Good guys stand up for what they believe in, and are willing to die for a cause. This trope is so omnipresent in our modern stories, movies, books, even our political metaphors, that it is sometimes difficult to see how new it is, or how bizarre it looks, considered in light of either ethics or storytelling.
W hen the Grimm brothers wrote down their local folktales in the 19th century, their aim was to use them to define the German Volk , and unite the German people into a modern nation. The Grimms were students of the philosophy of Johann Gottfried von Herder, who emphasised the role of language and folk traditions in defining values. Von Herder and the Grimms were proponents of the then-new idea that the citizens of a nation should be bound by a common set of values, not by kinship or land use.
For the Grimms, stories such as Godfather Death, or the Knapsack, the Hat and the Horn, revealed the pure form of thought that arose from their language. The corollary of uniting the Volk through a storified set of essential characteristics and values is that those outside the culture were seen as lacking the values Germans considered their own.
Von Herder might have understood the potential for mass violence in this idea, because he praised the wonderful variety of human cultures: As part of this new nationalist consciousness, other authors started changing the old stories to make a moral distinction between, for example, Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Sheriff of Nottingham was transformed from a simple antagonist to someone who symbolised the abuses of power against the powerless.
Even within a single nation Robin Hood , or a single household Cinderella , every scale of conflict was restaged as a conflict of values. Neither the Greeks nor the Trojans stand for some set of human strengths or frailties. Or consider the legend of King Arthur.