Creating happiness everyday

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. —Martha Washington Social scientists and economists...

Appreciating the ebb and the flow…

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my...

To thy self be true

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!                                                                — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I,...