Things to give up if you want to be happy...

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15 Things to Give Up If You Want to Be Happy

1. Give up your need to always be right

When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind. - Wayne Dyer

2. Give up your need for control

By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. When you try and try, the world is beyond winning. - Lau Tzu

3. Give up on blaming others

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else - John Burroughs

4. Give up your self-defeating self-talk

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. - Eckhart Tolle

5. Give up your limiting beliefs

A belief is not an idea held by the mind; it is an idea that holds the mind. - Elly Roselle

6. Give up complaining

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr

7. Give up the luxury of criticism

Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticise others. - Christian D Larson

8. Give up your need to impress others

Don't try to impress others. Let them have the fun of impressing you. - James R Fisher Jr

9.Give up your resistance to change

Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. - Joseph Campbell

10. Give up labels

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. - Wayne Dyer

11. Give up your fears

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

12. Give up your excuses

99% of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver

13. Give up the past

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. - Christian D Larsen

14. Give up attachment

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard a t work proving it's bad for him. - Bill Vaughan

15. Give up living your life to other people's expectations

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see. You create your own reality. - Denis Waitley

Original article by World Observer Online

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