Charissee Jones's Blog – July 2010 Archive (43)

If you chase happiness, it will run away faster than you can catch up with it. Why is that?



Because when you strive to create happiness, that very act of striving pushes the happiness away. The more you want it, the less you have of it.



Happiness is not something you can go out and get. Real happiness does not have to depend on creating a certain set of circumstances.



Happiness is a way you can choose to be. And you can simply choose it at any time, in any… Continue

When you are prepared to find fault, you will. When you are prepared to find goodness and value, you will.



What you are looking for determines what you find. What you are expecting determines what you experience.



Expectations don't magically change reality. Expectations do something even more powerful -- they change the way you deal with reality.



Is this going to be a positive, productive day or a disappointing, frustrating one? What do you… Continue

What do you really need? What if some of the things you think you need, you do not need at all?



Do you really need the approval of others? Do you really need to be offended by things that don't even affect you?



Do you really need that order of fries or that fourth cocktail? Do you really need to speed through the light that's already turned yellow?



Imagine being free of the burden of so much self-imposed and useless need. Instead of being boxed in by your… Continue