Why Do People Think Like This?

- reblogged from memories from the past 

I know people who think like this and I just want to tell them. "It's okay to be happy."

Don't Give Others Your Power

"You felt terror at the prospect of failure, of mistakes, of the criticism of others. So you became dependent on others and lost your freedom. Others now have the power to make you happy or miserable. And much as you now hate the suffering this involves, you find yourself completely helpless."

- Anthony De Mello. The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of. Image Books,1991. pg 139

Be Happy

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

- Aldous Huxley.

Happy Monday Everyone!

Be Happy - Don't Just Pretend

"Sometimes I think if my mother wasn't so good at pretending to be happy she might be better at actually being happy."

- Angela on My So-Called Life