Viral Happiness

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Will a passion for happiness help you achieve success? It’s the key that brought this young man from an impoverished upbringing in Africa to a Rhodes Scholarship and beyond. You can read the full article by clicking on “read more.” If you like it and you’re registered with digg, please digg it for me, and leave me a comment on digg.

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Warren Buffet, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey and many more share their wisdom with you. This is worthwhile knowledge, no matter what your passion in life might be. This information is hosted by docstoc, a free document hosting website. Just click on “read more,” and it will take you to the document. Once there, scroll to read these fantastic quotes. Enjoy!

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I’m watching early concert footage of Bob Dylan on Public Television tonight, and it’s caused me to think about originality and bravery and about being true to yourself.

Now whether you like Dylan or not isn’t the point. The point is that he was a radical force to be reckoned with beginning in the early sixties, when things were stilled pretty conservative and buttoned-down. And he helped to change the world as we know it.

When you listen to early Dylan now, in retrospect, he’s not a great singer or a polished guitar virtuoso. But he is an original performer and a brave poet exposing societies ills and inequities as he saw it, and he’s always being true to Bob Dylan.

There’s a lesson in this for us all, whether we’re working to release an original package of self-development information (like I’m currently doing), or whether we’re bravely facing health or job situations that are less than we desire, or whether we are bravely striving to be true to the lives we choose and not particularly to please society or anyone else’s ideas about what’s right and proper.

It all starts with the inner work. You’ve got to get the person on the inside like you want him or her to be. Once you do that, don’t worry about what’s considered conventional or normal. Decide what you want to do and who you want to be, and just be true to that vision. Then everything else in your life will begin to align itself to bring that vision into reality.

It won’t always be easy, but it will always be fulfilling. Just like Dylan says in the following quote:

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to
bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

Always be true to the vision you have of yourself.

Buz