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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"Blessed is everyone that feareth God, that walketh in His Ways!" (Psalm 128:1)
Amen! Happiness occurs between the ears. You have one life, spend it as you will.
You’ve gotta have heart!
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It is important that I am loved, admired, and approved by everyone.
Perfection is good. God is perfect 8-)
Anyway, dog gone it, I’m good enough and smart enough.
...and people like me ;) Hard to believe Stuart Smalley is my Senator.
8. 0bama is the president of the united states
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.
I think he got the direction wrong on the last one, “Hope is not a strategy.
Or else hope IS a strategy.
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.
If money won't buy happiness, poverty sure as hell won't.
"That a man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a Heaven for?" -- Robert Browning
To be contented is to be rich.
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.
It worked for Obama.
You are. You are the second most important person in the world.
I agree with you on that; I still don’t know what that sentence is supposed to mean.
I is kind, I is smart, I is important.
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.
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