Here was a shelf of nothing but Harry Potter, here, my worn copies of the Narnia books, there, my beloved Little House books (Santa Claus brought me one volume each Christmas for nine years). The Elizabeth Enright and Edward Eager books I’d read so many times. Mary Stoltz, who didn’t get the attention she deserved. Streatfield, Barrie, Canfield,

“Your lack of planning is not my emergency.”)

I also employed the weapon of convenience by making it easy to behave the way I wanted to behave.

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends.” That’s

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory, and photographs are a very helpful tool for prompting happy memories.

As many as 85 percent of adults keep photos or mementos in their wallets or on their work desks, and happy families tend to display large numbers of photographs in their homes.

I were looking back at this decision, five years from now, what will I wish I’d done?

We possess considerable power to push ourselves to the top or bottom of our natural range through our conscious actions and thoughts.

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