Status Updates From The Happiness Hack: Take Ch...

What you do makes
a difference, and you
have to decide what
kind of difference you
want to make.
decide
make.
—JANE GOODALL, WILDLIFE
RESEARCHER, ANTHROPOLOGIST,
U.N. MESSENGER OF PEAC

Adapt
Adapt what is useful, reject
what is useless, and add what
is specifically your own.
add
— BRUCE LEE, ACTOR AND
MARTIAL ARTS MASTER
Breath and working with our body changes our
psychology so we become happy, strong, and healthy

I am the greatest.
I am the greatest.
I said that even before
I knew I was-mohammad ali G.O.A.T 🐐

Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end.
Learning, if you use it, increase- swahili proverb

There’s a reason we
pay attention. Time
and focus are our most
Time
focus
precious currency.
—UNKNOWN

My wife and I debated
learning the sex of our first
child before birth. I raised
the issue with my uncle,
a gynecologist who had delivered more than five thousand babies. He said,
“If a doctor looks a screen and tells you, you will have information. If you find out at the moment of birth, you will have a miracle.” miracle I don’t believe in miracles, but [we] followed his
advice…and he was right. he was right

It is not the forces of
darkness but of shallowness
that everywhere threaten
the true, and the good,
and the beautiful, and
that ironically address
themselves as deep and
profound. It is an exuberant
and fearless shallowness
that everywhere is the
modern danger, and that
everywhere nonetheless
calls to us as savior.
good
—KEN WILBUR, PSYCHOLOGIST,
SCHOLAR, AUTHOR

Happiness for an hour: take a nap.
Happiness for a day: go fishing.
Happiness for a year: inherit a fortune.
Happiness for a lifetime? Help someone else.
—CHINESE PROVER

We’re taught that “alienation,” when we
withdraw or feel alone, is a craving for
something sexual, material, or physical…when
in truth, it’s the circuitry within our souls
and minds hinting to be connected outside
of our TVs and computer monitors. What
many of us mistake for depression is actually
a need to be understood, or to see desires
come to fruition.
— SUZY KASSEM, AUTHOR, ARTIS

stress modulator:cortisol & endorphins
happiness modulators: dopamine, serotonin
bonding modulators: vasopression &oxytocin
True happiness…is not attained through self- gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.— HELEN KELLER, AUTHOR, SPEAKER,
GROUNDBREAKING ACTIVIST

The mind controls the brain controls the mind.— DAVID ROCK, AUTHOR, FOUNDER OF THE NEUROLEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia— hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city… Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second.there are as many connection as milky way galazy stars" - david eaglmen

Take a second.Think whatever you want.It’s yourIt’s your brain. Make
brain.yourself at home in it.—LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA,
PLAYWRIGHT, COMPOSER, ACTOR

Nothing captures the biological argument better than the famous New Age
slogan: “Happiness begins within.” Money, social status, plastic surgery, beautiful houses, powerful positions— none of these will bring you happiness. Lasting happiness comes only from serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin.—YUVAL NOAH HARARI, SAPIENS

HAPPINESS is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of TRAVELING. margaret lee runbeck

to enjoy good health, to bring TRUE HAPPINESS to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first DISCIPLINE and CONTROL one's own mind. if we can control our mind, we can find the way to Enlightenment, and all WISDOM and VIRTUE will naturally come to us" - the buddha

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""in today's stressful, complex world, who among wouldn't benefit from a happiness boost? breaks down the procress of achieving happiness with understandable and useful examples

"we have more control on our mind than we think"