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Five areas of activity (Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give) shown to increase happiness and well-being were increasingly being used in health, education and other settings across the UK and beyond. We came up with an
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“He is wrong; my talent is not a great one, but no talent is wholly wasted unless its owner chooses to hide it in a napkin. Remember that of your own gifts, Rebecca; they may not be praised of men, but they may cheer, console, inspire, perhaps, when and where you least expect. The brimming glass that overflows its own rim moistens the earth about it.”
― Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
― Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
“Look at the pebbles in the bottom of the pool, Miss Emily, so round and smooth and shining." "Yes, but where did they get that beautiful polish, that satin skin, that lovely shape, Rebecca? Not in the still pool lying on the sands. It was never there that their angles were rubbed off and their rough surfaces polished, but in the strife and warfare of running waters. They have jostled against other pebbles, dashed against sharp rocks, and now we look at them and call them beautiful.”
― Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
― Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
“Write your truth, Ms. Tia say. Your truth.
I tear to pieces the paper, ad throw it to the floor. Then I swim deep inside the river of my soul, find the key from where it is sitting full of rust, at the bottom of the river, and open the lock. I kneel down beside my bed, close my eyes, turn myself into a cup, and pour the memory out of me.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
I tear to pieces the paper, ad throw it to the floor. Then I swim deep inside the river of my soul, find the key from where it is sitting full of rust, at the bottom of the river, and open the lock. I kneel down beside my bed, close my eyes, turn myself into a cup, and pour the memory out of me.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“It is easier to learn to be soaked and happy than to learn how to stop the rain.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“You can't make people love you. But you can give the love you long for out to the world. You can be the love you wish you had. That's the way to be okay. Because giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”
― The Bodyguard
― The Bodyguard
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