Princess Scribbles

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Happiness...

Just been lookin for some inspiration around...didnt help much but still found some good stuff...

by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. hen we are frustrated that the kids aren't enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred D Souza. He said, "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life". This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, reassure every moment that you have. And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time...and remember that time waits for no one...

So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until you've sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy..

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Thought for the day:

 Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching.
posted by Barrira Khawaja at 12:01 PM 4 comments

pursuit of happiness..

Read something and its worth sharin..so here it iz..=)

by: Yekaterina Bezpalaya, Source Unknown

The ethereal silence is almost haunting a lovely memory from long ago. All of nature seems to stretch out to the sun like marionettes on puppet strings. We take no time to notice, in our fast-paced burdened lives, the captivating simplicity of its beauty and its seductive ways to make us want to sit down and "praise" it.

Which comes to the question:

Are we really happy or are we falsely misplacing our standards of what happiness is for us?

Can the source of happiness only come from the accumulation, an increase of our material possessions or is there a more defined and deep happiness, which we exclude from our lives?

Do we get so stuck on fighting for control over our lives that we obliterate all other vitalities?

This is where we fall short in happiness. Where we begin to spiritually and emotionally wear out from the everyday strife in our lives. Yet we always have a choice.

As said in the Constitution, we all have a right in the "pursuit" of happiness, but how many of us really find true happiness? If we just slow down and observe everything, maybe we won't have to search for happiness … maybe happiness will end up finding us.

posted by Barrira Khawaja at 10:02 AM 4 comments