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"People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like a fine weather if you're fortunate enough.
But that's not how happiness works.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to saty afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment."

Do livro mais marcante que li este ano.

Eat
Pray
Love
De Elizabeth Gilbert

Everything!!!!

"Everything"

Now I believe that what I used to think was a lie is really alive
Now I can see there's only one place to reach
Only one thing to preach and that's the highest
It's the strangest thing that I can feel so much

There is no reason, there is no logic to feelings
'Cause when love is the dealer I'm addicted
So fascinated, I can't stop this constant craving
You're contagious
It's the strangest thing that I can feel so much
For someone, somehow

[Chorus]
And I cannot hide, even if I try
You mean everything to me
Any fool can see, what you've done to me
You mean everyhing to me
And when you're not her, I jsut cry
And when you're not here, I could die

The best is still to come dear
The best is still to come for us

It's the strangest thing that I can feel so much
For someone, somehow

The Esteroids Of The Economy Of the World Are Burning

The growth economy is failing and we have to attempt a steady-state economy.

For four decades, the econimist Herman Daly has worked tirelessly to challenge the growth dogma that modern society has so enthusiastically imbibed. Publishing several books and more than 100 articles, Daly has even tried to effect change from within, spending six frustrating years at the World Bank, where he observed how misguided policies emerged from "an unrealistic vision of development as the generalization of Northern over-consumption." In 1994, Daly left the World Bank for the University of Maryland. To date, he has received the Right Livelihood Award as well as the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Thanks to the overwhelming evidence natural scientists have amassed demonstrating that if we want to avoid catastrophic climate change, humanity must stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, mainstream economists are grudgingly coming to accept the fact that there are ecological limits to our growth after all. While the majority have yet to admit that growth is a false idol, once one limit is accepted, the likelihood that there are others quickly follows. Once these limits are accepted, the whole plausibility of continued growth crumbles.

Herman Daily has contributed to a new paradigm: the steady state economy. Regardless of whether it will be hard or easy, Daily proposes a SSE because we cannot continue growing, and in fact so-called "economic" growth already has become uneconomic. The growth economy is failing. In other words, the quantitative expansion of the economic subsystem increases environmental and social costs faster than production benefits, making us poorer not richer, at least in high-consumption countries.

Read the full article here:
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/81/steady_state_economy.html