one of my favorite quotes ever! i have it hanging on my board and look at it daily. such a simple thought, yet i can honestly say it changed me and made me a happier, calmer person once it sunk in (cheap therapy huh).
To quote Helen Telushkin … “The only happy people I know are people I don’t know well.” Meaning, EVERYBODY’S life is going to look great in comparison to your because you know every failure, missed dream, unfulfilled desire and so on of your own life. Unfortunately, when you look at the life of another – you on see and focus on those aspects their life that are better, greater, etc. of yours. As a general rule, no one compares themselves to the homeless person sleeping over a city subway grate.
Swissmiss is an online garden Tina Roth Eisenberg started in 2005 and has lovingly tended to ever since.
Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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one of my favorite quotes ever! i have it hanging on my board and look at it daily. such a simple thought, yet i can honestly say it changed me and made me a happier, calmer person once it sunk in (cheap therapy huh).
May 8th, 2013 / 11:40 pm
Brilliant! I’ve never heard it before but it’s perfect. I too will be looking at it daily from now on. Thank you.
May 9th, 2013 / 8:16 am
To quote Helen Telushkin … “The only happy people I know are people I don’t know well.” Meaning, EVERYBODY’S life is going to look great in comparison to your because you know every failure, missed dream, unfulfilled desire and so on of your own life. Unfortunately, when you look at the life of another – you on see and focus on those aspects their life that are better, greater, etc. of yours. As a general rule, no one compares themselves to the homeless person sleeping over a city subway grate.
May 10th, 2013 / 5:45 pm