An interesting Chinese proverb that Christine Comaford distributed in her Mighty Minute email.
If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help others.
"Everybody wants
to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." ~ Cary Grant
Stephen Bayley, in Life’s a Pitch…, says "You are your own finest creation". His tips for making the best possible impression:
It is said that we are all three different people: the person we think
we are (the one we have invented), the person other people think we are
(the impression we make) and the person we think other people think we
are (the one we fret about). You could say it would be a lifetime’s
quest to reconcile this battling trinity into a seamless whole. Maybe,
but for the time being I am convinced that, in Kurt Vonnegut’s words
(there I go, quoting again): you are what you pretend to be.
1. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
2. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight-saving time.
3. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
4. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.
5. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is at age 11.
