Posts tagged happiness

You are not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are completely in control of your attitude and your reactions to them. — Adopt a policy of being joyful and grateful.
My grandfather

Our lives are in the space between Isaiah Berlin’s “We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail an irreparable loss” and Borges’ Garden of Forking Paths, where every choice produces a quantum explosion of alternate futures.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Simone Weil

The Elements of Happiness – beautiful print design for Harvard’s longest prospective study of well-being.