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Further Secrets of Adulthood: Agree, disagree? I recalled this Secret of Adulthood when I was watching a ballet last year. At one point, a dancer wobbled slightly, and for me, this brief moment of imperfection heightened the beauty of the entire performance. It made it seem more real, more thrilling. What do …
Happiness interview: Stephanie Dolgoff. I e-knew Stephanie Dolgoff a bit from the internet, because I’d read her blog, Formerly Hot — “a humorous blog about body image, beauty, aging, and pop culture.” We crossed paths at a recent blogger conference, but never met. Last week, finally, I got the chance to meet Stephanie face-to-face just as her new book, My …
“Such is beauty ever — neither here nor there, now nor then, neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire. If I seek her elsewhere because I do not find her at home, my search will prove a fruitless one.” – Henry David Thoreau * Interested in starting your own happiness project? If you’d …
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Sir Isaac Newton * I’m …
My First Splendid Truth is: To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth. Although this sounds like a simple and rather obvious formula, it took me a huge amount of time and thinking to work it out. Even once I’d come up with it, however, I didn’t understand …
