Here are my general orders for getting through bad times;

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Stay positive. This is the mantra for bad times “This too shall pass” not even the worst storm lasts forever. Stay positive. ...

Awful but true

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Last Night

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Mary and I attended a fundraiser last night for "My Sister Place" a shelter for battered women and then grabbed a late dinner ...

I learn a new word once a week

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Impedimenta (im-ped-uh-MEN-tuh)  Baggage, supplies, or equipment related to an activity or expedition, especially when regarded as slowin...

Finish whatever you're writing

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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. –                                                             ...

..................and life goes on

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Century-old publishing house goes to auction By Arthur Hirsch, The Baltimore Sun  The West Baltimore home of a defunct century-old...

How wonderful is this?

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Elijah Moment: Campaign Promotes Random Acts of Kindness By Charlene Aaron The holidays are a time for giving and sharing. That...

Get knocked down a thousand times, get back up a thousand and one

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CLASS OF 2014 SUCCESS STORIES: OVERCOMING ADVERSITY Bowling Green State University / News / 2014 / December / Class of 2014 Succes...

Should we measure gross national happiness?

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Leslie Nguyenokwu Move over, GDP. Psychologists Shigehiro Oishi and Ed Diener say it's time to make room for happiness, the ne...

Look for the good and you will find the good

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Generous Stranger Secretly Pays Off Every Layaway Account at Toys R Us At the Toys-R-Us store in Bellingham, Massachusetts a complet...

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create

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You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and wo...

A Hairstylist Provides Free Cuts to the Homeless

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By ALYSON KRUEGERDEC. 10, 2014 David Terry is 50 years old, H.I.V. positive and homeless. He spends his nights at Bailey House, a no...

‘You’ve Gotta Be Kidding’ Waitress Told Strangers Who Wanted to Replace Her Beat Up Car

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by Good News Network Her car was barely drivable after multiple run-ins with deer on roadways. She covered two windows with plastic ...

How to Be Happier

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by Aisha Sultan There are times when a foggy malaise can settle into a spot. Even when cracks of sunlight break through this vapor, ...

Why happiness levels shoot up after 50

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A few months ago, bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel had an essay in The Atlantic saying that, all things considered, he would prefer to die ar...

That's happiness.

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Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness. -- Orville Wright, co-i...

The key to happiness

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Being successful is great but it isn’t the key to happiness. It’s the other way around. The happiness is the key to success. So logically,...

No one ever thinks they’re awful

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“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.” Emily St. John Mandel...

Fear is what we think it is and nothing else

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        The only place where fear exists is in the mind.

This is what happens to long term foster kids

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“Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-an...

To learn who rules over you

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“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”                                                 ...

Don't worry, be happy

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Happiness is in the moment you are in Colleen Crawford  Battlefords News-Optimist “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the fut...

The Geography Of Happiness: Where Americans Are Happiest And Why

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Ben Schiller is a New York-based staff writer for Co.Exist, and also contributes to the FT and Yale e360. He used to edit a European man...