Lamúrias e Felicidade

Lamúrias (de acordo com Hazrat Inayat Khan):

I - « Self-pity is the cause of all life's grievances:

·         If one studies one's surroundings one finds that those who are happy are so because they have less thought of self. If they are unhappy it is because they think of themselves too much. A person is more bearable when he thinks less of himself. And a person is unbearable when he is always thinking of himself. There are many miseries in life, but the greatest misery is self-pity.

·         Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards. There is so much in the world that we can pity and which it would be right for us to take pity upon, but if we have no time free from our own self we cannot give our mind to others in the world. Life is one long journey, and the further behind we have left our self, the further we have progressed toward the goal. Verily when the false self is lost the true self is discovered.»

II - « Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world. » 

Felicidade (de acordo com vários):

Ø  “Our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” -  Wilhelm von Humboldt

Ø  “Happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance and in inverse proportion to your expectations” – Michael J Fox

Ø  “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.” – Jacques Prévert

Ø  “We can be unhappy about a lot of things, but joy can still be there (…) it is important to become aware that at every moment of life we have an opportunity to choose joy” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

Ø  “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers

Ø  “With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” – Max Ehrmann 

(é precisamente por isso que eu gosto tanto da canção It’s a Wonderful World)