Thoughts on Happiness

There are times when it is hard to believe in the future, when we are temporarily just not brave enough.

When this happens, concentrate on the present. Cultivate le petit bonheur (the little happiness) until courage returns.

Look forward to the beauty of the next moment, the next hour, the promise of a good meal, sleep, a book, a movie, the likelihood that tonight the stars will shine and tomorrow the sun will shine.

Sink roots into the present until the strength grows to think about tomorrow.

Ardis Whitman

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -- Judy Garland

Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
Come to the edge!
And they came,
and he pushed,
and they flew.
-- Christopher Logue

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." D.L. George


"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through.
Face it. " Joseph Conrad


"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
John Barrymore

Personal Reflections on Manic-Depressive/Bi-Polar Illness

In this University of Virginia video, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shares her experiences with living every day with the mania and severe depression that she had studied for years. She talks openly of the challenges she faced with the treatment and disclosure of her mental illness.