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7 common beliefs that make you terribly unhappy
Jewish World Review/FamilyShare ^ | Jan. 21, 2015 | Susan Swann

Posted on 01/23/2015 2:23:07 PM PST by imardmd1

We are what we think. These seven popularly held beliefs are causing you unnecessary misery

1. Lust and love are the same

2. The more money you have, the happier you will be

3. Any dream can come true, if you want it badly enough

4. Perfection is good

5. My happiness is more important than yours

6. Success is permanent

7. Hope is not a strategy

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: attitudes; beliefs; distress; happiness; readthislater
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Hurry, hurry! Lets have some post on beliefs that truly make you happy, makes you blessed! Like:

"Blessed is everyone that feareth God, that walketh in His Ways!" (Psalm 128:1)

1 posted on 01/23/2015 2:23:07 PM PST by imardmd1
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To: imardmd1

Amen! Happiness occurs between the ears. You have one life, spend it as you will.


2 posted on 01/23/2015 2:27:52 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: imardmd1

You’ve gotta have heart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry8CpIg2fvU


3 posted on 01/23/2015 2:28:09 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: imardmd1

Bookmark.


4 posted on 01/23/2015 2:33:17 PM PST by OKSooner ("Knowledge is good.")
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To: imardmd1

It is important that I am loved, admired, and approved by everyone.


5 posted on 01/23/2015 2:41:56 PM PST by Salvey
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To: imardmd1

Perfection is good. God is perfect 8-)

Anyway, dog gone it, I’m good enough and smart enough.


6 posted on 01/23/2015 2:47:19 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

...and people like me ;) Hard to believe Stuart Smalley is my Senator.


7 posted on 01/23/2015 2:50:27 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: imardmd1

8. 0bama is the president of the united states


8 posted on 01/23/2015 2:52:31 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Ugh the first time he won I blamed it on the MSM hype machine fooling people.

But to win again with $4 gas, 8% unemployment (13% actual), surging food prices, and trillion dollar deficits forever? That was REALLY depressing.


9 posted on 01/23/2015 2:55:52 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: imardmd1

I think he got the direction wrong on the last one, “Hope is not a strategy.

Or else hope IS a strategy.


10 posted on 01/23/2015 3:18:34 PM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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Who here believes these? Good grief. Seems like another straw man article.

Six are wrong. But in general we do things for our own happiness. If they make others happy and us less so, it’s usually not by design.


11 posted on 01/23/2015 3:24:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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2. The more money you have, the happier you will be

If money won't buy happiness, poverty sure as hell won't.

12 posted on 01/23/2015 3:25:17 PM PST by IronJack
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4. Perfection is good

"That a man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a Heaven for?" -- Robert Browning

13 posted on 01/23/2015 3:26:59 PM PST by IronJack
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To: imardmd1

To be contented is to be rich.


14 posted on 01/23/2015 3:28:30 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: IronJack

I was going to write the same thing....money can buy comfort, poverty cannot even do that many times, it also cannot buy food for many..but money and a generous heart can help many.


15 posted on 01/23/2015 3:35:21 PM PST by goat granny
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To: AZLiberty
"or else HOPE is a strategy"

It worked for Obama.

16 posted on 01/23/2015 3:43:30 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Salvey
It t is important that I am loved, admired, and approved by everyone.

You are. You are the second most important person in the world.

17 posted on 01/23/2015 3:45:10 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: AZLiberty

I agree with you on that; I still don’t know what that sentence is supposed to mean.


18 posted on 01/23/2015 4:08:25 PM PST by odawg
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To: imardmd1

I is kind, I is smart, I is important.


19 posted on 01/23/2015 4:45:13 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (This space for rent.)
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To: IronJack

Money won’t buy happiness. But then again, neither will poverty.

Money does, however, buy freedom. The more money you have the more choices you have.


20 posted on 01/23/2015 5:57:18 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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