"I realise that most of the unhappiness in my life is due to other people not living up to my own expectations, or my fear of how others will react to me. How dare I expect others to think and act in a way that will make me happy, especially when I’m struggling to...
Many people believe that love either comes naturally or it doesn’t. Agreed: that initial attraction is either there or it isn't (and even that’s debatable), but if you want it to last, it takes as much work as anything else worthwhile in life. Love’s spark might be...
So often we allow a single thing, person, event etc. to determine our happiness. Should happiness and true joy have an on or off switch? I don’t think so. Life has so much variety and diversity to offer us, how could we be so narrow minded as to give one single aspect...
The older we get, the more set we are in our ways. Often we live by rules or notions we set for ourselves when we were much younger. What made us happy back then, or more importantly, what we though would make us happy, might not be applicable any more. Now it’s a...