On January of this year, I bought ''The Happiness Project''. And since it is about a whole year's resolutions, I decided to start reading each month as it goes. 

Unfortunately I am a very slow reader and I like to take my time so I didn't really reach November in the book just yet. I don't know what it is but I feel kind of sad to finish a book that I enjoy so much, I wouldn't want it to end so I take my time reading and going over it again and again!

Every time I read this book, I find myself smiling, crying, laughing and feeling everything Gretchen writes. You will definitely relate to it in one way or another! She talks about happiness, attitude, family, work, friends, and much more.

I like to keep a pencil close while I read, to underline all the quotes or sayings that I find inspiring and relative to me. So I thought I'd share what I've got so far.

I haven't finished the book yet so these are just some of my favorite quotes from reading halfway through.

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''You've been there and done that so you know it's possible to do it again. It's a matter of weathering the storm and navigating to your happiness destination. It probably won't be the same path but it is achievable.''

''I'd been haunted by an uncomfortable feeling -- that I wasn't doing what I was ''supposed'' to be doing. Now, through my wiring career can be a source of ''feeling bad'' as well as ''feeling good'', I do ''feel right.''

''Happiness'', wrote Yeats, ''is neither virtue nor pleasure not this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.''

''I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth''

''Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship''

''Whenever I feel blue, working cheers me up''

''And perhaps most important, I would take care to remind myself to remember how lucky I was to be as eager for Monday mornings as I was for Friday afternoons.''

''People don't notice your mistakes as much as you think''

''I didn't want to be like the novelist who spent so much time rewriting his first sentence that he never wrote his second. If I wanted to get anything accomplished, I needed to keep pushing ahead without constantly second-guessing myself.''

''Starting my blog, for example, made me feel anxious, but deep down, I knew I could do it and would very likely enjoy it, once I'd overcome the initial intimidating hurdles.''

''In order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure''

'' ''I enjoy the fun of failure''. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing. It's worth doing badly''

''I think I might have shied away from pursuing these goals, because I wouldn't have wanted to deal with rejection''

''If I do my project my way, I'm unspiritual and gimmicky; if I tried to do it in a different way, I'd be inauthentic and fake. Might as well ''Be Gretchen.''

''The most effective way to lighten up, is to make a joke''

''The days are long but the years are short''

''Family traditions make occasions feel special and exciting. They mark the passage of time in a happy way. They provide a sense of anticipation, security, and continuity.''

''I think by knowing who we are as people and being ourselves, we can start making the world better''

''I started a ''Happiness Box'' in which I'd collect all sorts of little trinkets meant to trigger happy thoughts and memories''

''Just because something is fun for someone else doesn't make it fun for me.''

''I think a real life-shaking catastrophe can provide in-sights into happiness that you couldn't have any other way.''

''Samuel Johnson said, ''The business of the wise man is to be happy.'' In whatever condition life happens to offer.''

Until next time..

Much love.. 

Memorable quotes from ''A Place Called Here''

This book has been with me since high school, I'm not a ''reader'' but I loved this one.. I still haven't finished it though hahaha! I will someday!
My best friend Suz once told me how she keeps papers in her books full of her favorite quotes, so I decided to do the same..
And today, I found the paper that I have written my favorite quotes and moments on ages ago. So I wanted to share them with you guys =)
Here you go... favorite

''Maybe she'd just had enough and was hiding from the world for a while''

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''The complete opposite to how I was in life. I wanted to join in, swap stories, and belong''

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''I can only assume that there's only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything''

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''He may not have had the answers for me but he sure cured me of searching for one thing''

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''They just want you to be you, you know that. Don't be ashamed of how you are. They love you for who you are.''

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''The more partners I had, the more I realized Gregory and I were the best pair
I'd ever come across. But in my pursuit of answers to all the difficult questions in my life, I missed out on the obvious ones right in front of my very eyes''

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''That was the other thing I hated about kids : They always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear''

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''We felt inextricably linked to one another, as if there was an invisible umbilical cord joining us both. Allowing us to feed off one another, helping us to grow and give one another life''

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''Secretly wondering if they had imagined it all. Wether that second among a lifetime of seconds had been true at all''

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''Your heart can break at any age''

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''Life and death, male and female, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, win and lose, love and hate, lost and found.''

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''It was one of those occasions when telling someone wouldn't make it any better.''

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''We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love''

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''Its too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed, we realize too late''



With love..
Hind xx