Love and Happiness

“Happiness cannot be identified with pleasure.” ~Aristotle. Happiness and pleasure are two very different emotions, some of the biggest differences between the two being: 1. Happiness comes from within, pleasure comes from outside. 2. Happiness depends upon the path you choose, the grueling the path, the more happiness you earn at the end. Pleasure has […]

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Sydney J. Harris There is a trick that gives you immense confidence whenever you are faced with a difficult decision in life: Consider your old version, say 50 years from now, […]

There are two paths to buy happiness: the short and the long path. The short path to happiness is the credit path. Suppose you saw a big house or a sports car that you immediately fall in love with. The problem is you cannot afford it. So you buy it on credit and keep on […]

“The law of giving is very simple. If you want joy, give joy. If love is what you seek, offer love.” Deepak Chopra Remember giving always starts from YOU and receiving also starts from YOU. There is an inner child inside all of us and that child loves to receive. But usually we become so […]

For me the most important thing that maintains a relationship is spending Quality Time together. Most people think that spending quality time is watching movies, going to a drive, having dinner etc. These are good activities, but for me the quality of time has more to do with silence, focus and attention. Suppose you find […]

Each person has a different love language through which he or she expresses his or her love and wants love to be expressed to him or her. These languages according to Dr Gary Chapman are:1. Words of Affirmation 2. Spending Quality Time 3. Receiving Gifts 4. Doing Acts of Service 5. Physical TouchYou need to […]

Gratitude means to have an attitude of thankfulness, and to acknowledge with thanks everything that you receive in your life. Gratitude is something personal. When you express your gratitude openly through your actions, it becomes appreciation. Appreciation takes your gratitude to the next level. When you say “I love you” to someone, it means your […]

    Our heart and mind work in very different ways. Heart makes everything we experience fun, mind makes it dull. Suppose you are walking with your spouse or someone of the opposite sex and suddenly it starts to rain. If you two are connected heart to heart, you both will enjoy the rain. You […]

My little daughter knows exactly what she wants, what she likes, and how to express her feelings. In short, she trusts life, she trusts her friends and she trusts me and her mother. Yet somewhere along our paths, we change. We’re taught that life is limited, we must struggle to get our share of the […]

To Feel helplessness is a learned behavior. We are not born with it. Feeling helpless is also the basis of depression. Martin Seligman and Steve Maier are two researchers (University of Pennsylvania) who proved the above fact. They experimented on animals and perhaps at that time animal activists were not too vocal. They took two […]