Life doesn’t require ideals, it requires standards of action.
Erikson: We deserve more than moderation.
“You keep telling me about moderation. That a little is enough. But sometimes for some of us, a little is not enough. Because, when it comes to something like wild walks or vulnerability or truth or heart – racing conversation or ecstatic contemplation or mind bending intimacy or all that catapults us into the flow, form and timelessness of our own aliveness, I am telling you that we deserve more than moderation.”
Victoria Erickson
Good Relationships Keep Us Happy
A 75 year study at Harvard concluded that good relationships are what truly keep us happy and healthy. Not money, career success, possessions, good health, travel…. but deep friendship and love.
Just a reminder today to embrace and celebrate the loves in your life.
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” – Kenneth Blanchard
“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” – Alan Watts
A person who never learned to trust confuses intensity with intimacy, obsession with care, and control with security.”
Patrick Carnes, MD
“Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.”
Anthony de Mello
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.” ~Tal Ben-Shahar
Read more about Happiness here.