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09-25-2010, 09:11 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Keys to Happiness
Applying your God-given talents in pursuit of your passion in an environment you enjoy.
Having something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to (FIRE, oh yeah!)
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09-25-2010, 09:36 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Some 'happiness' quotes...Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness; Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. - Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come ninety percent of all your happiness or misery.
- In almost every culture where happiness has been studied, it comes down to four things: employment, family, health and money. Richard Easterlin
- Money won't buy you happiness, but it makes being miserable a whole lot easier.
- We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Koenig
- All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself. Shantideva
- Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. Helen Keller
- If you want true peace, happiness and joy, you need to realize that happiness and satisfaction come from within you and stop searching so fanatically outside. You can never find real happiness out there. Whoever has? Ven. Robina Courtin
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Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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09-25-2010, 09:38 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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^ I like those, thanks for sharing!
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09-25-2010, 12:56 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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A little song...
A little dance...
A little seltzer...
Down my pants...
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There's no need to complicate, our time is short..
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09-25-2010, 02:14 PM
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To me, the foundation of happiness is financial independence. There is no peace of mind without it. If you are dependent on the whims of the labor market (not the theoretical one in economics books but the real one as real people conduct it), you will eventually have your soul sucked out through your nostrils.
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And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know.
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09-28-2010, 02:53 AM
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These two quotes say it all :
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Originally Posted by Midpack
Some 'happiness' quotes...- All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself. Shantideva
- Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. Helen Keller
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Very conservative with investments. Not ER'd yet, 48 years old. Please do not take anything I write or imply as legal, financial or medical advice directed to you. Contact your own financial advisor, healthcare provider, or attorney for financial, medical and legal advice.
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09-28-2010, 06:20 AM
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For me it will be no longer having to work in a job I dislike. I guess that really is the end of misery more than it is hapiness.
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09-28-2010, 06:28 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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I'd have to say that for me, it is ice cream.
And being rid of my slave masters / baby sitters.
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09-28-2010, 07:51 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
- Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come ninety percent of all your happiness or misery.
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Boy howdy...
A crisp fall day, a few friends, some adult beverages... 
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Have Funds, Will Retire
...not doing anything of true substance...
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09-28-2010, 08:27 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Sometimes death is not as tragic as not knowing how to live. This man knew how to live--and how to make others glad they were living. - Jack Benny at Nat King Cole's funeral
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09-28-2010, 09:03 AM
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Genetics. A recent article in The Economist reported a strong correlation to one's genetic make up. So maybe there is a 'happy gene'. Why not, there certainly seems to be a correlation in family depression.
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T.S. Eliot:
Old men ought to be explorers
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09-28-2010, 05:25 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Onward
To me, the foundation of happiness is financial independence. There is no peace of mind without it. If you are dependent on the whims of the labor market (not the theoretical one in economics books but the real one as real people conduct it), you will eventually have your soul sucked out through your nostrils.
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I would respectfully disagree. Some of the happiest people you will ever find have virtually no means at all (though you will have to look outside the USA to see it)...financial independence is a recent phenomena in history, happiness predates FI by centuries.
OTOH there are plenty of people who are financially independent many times over, yet they are absolutely miserable. You can read about them in any gossip rag.
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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09-28-2010, 06:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
Some 'happiness' quotes...- All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself. Shantideva
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And then, of course, there are those who find happiness in thinking about the suffering of others. Sadly, many of them seem to be related to me.
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09-28-2010, 07:14 PM
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"If you are not happy with what you have, imagine not having it."
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09-28-2010, 07:44 PM
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I think one secret of happiness is to try to purge envy from your attitude set.
Ha
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09-28-2010, 07:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haha
I think one secret of happiness is to try to purge envy from your attitude set.
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I don't envy anyone, I'm very happy with everything at this stage of life. Everyone seems to want something they don't have. But what's the old saying "don't wish for something, you may get it"
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09-29-2010, 02:11 AM
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09-29-2010, 07:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
I would respectfully disagree. Some of the happiest people you will ever find have virtually no means at all (though you will have to look outside the USA to see it)...financial independence is a recent phenomena in history, happiness predates FI by centuries.
OTOH there are plenty of people who are financially independent many times over, yet they are absolutely miserable. You can read about them in any gossip rag.
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I couldn't agree with you more. Having lived in the developing world for a bit, I can tell you that most of them are quite happy. I think a lot of unhappiness comes from expectations and lack of contentment. Since many people in other countries have much less to aspire to in terms of material comforts (think Europe as well), they tend to be more contented. Americans are on a perpetual quest to improve their financial health and general "well-being". I wouldn't be surprised if a large percentage of us are unhappy.
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09-29-2010, 07:54 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yakers
Genetics. A recent article in The Economist reported a strong correlation to one's genetic make up. So maybe there is a 'happy gene'. Why not, there certainly seems to be a correlation in family depression.
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I agree that genetics is around 60% of everything an individual is. Some psychologists at a University or research center put together a study of what percentage of characteristics are inherited vs. nurture/environment--which I don't have access to anymore and wish I did--but the breakdown came very generally speaking to a 60-40% split with genetics being the 60%. Thanks for bringing that up, Yakers!
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09-29-2010, 08:53 AM
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I've never been happy, however I am contented.
Good enough for me...
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