“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, stepping out your front door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you’ll be swept off to.”
// Bilbo Baggins
Lord of the Rings
‘Trying’
“‘Trying’ is wanting approval for something you have no intention of doing.”
// Lester Levenson
1909-1994
Expectations
Expectations
“Resentment involves a state of mind and bodily feeling. It is a form of anger that results from an unfulfilled, potentially unrealistic, expectation. It occurs when we associate more negatives or drawbacks than positives or benefits with some expected outcome or behavior. Gratitude is an attitude that arises when we realize that there exists an underlying balance of positives for each of the negatives. It results from the recognition of an underlying order. A balanced perspective can ‘cure’ resentment. A realistic expectation can prevent it.”
// Dr John Demartini
PolyMath
Performance and Behavior Specialist
Happiness?
“A good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman;
it depends on how much happiness you can handle.”
// George Burns, 1896-1996
Which is deeper: happiness or joy?
“Which is deeper: happiness or joy? I vote for joy as happiness evaporates epidermically while joy resonates down to your bones.”
// Chip Conley, Founder, Joie de Vivre Hospitality