A Better Choice at WAVES

You are always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

It takes five positive things to outweigh a single negative thing. Our brains have something called a negativity bias that makes us remember bad news more than good, which is why you quickly forget that your coworker complimented your presentation but keep dwelling on the fact that a kid at the bus stop insulted your shoes. To feel balanced, we need at least a five to one ration of good to bad in our lives.

On average, 46.1% of Americans have less than $10,000 in assets when they die.

Our favorite subject is ourselves. Do not blame your self-absorbed brother for talking about himselfit is just the way his brain is wired. The reward centers of our brains light up more when we are talking about ourselves than when we are talking about other people, according to a Harvard study.

The root of joy is gratefulness.

If you are waiting to be loved and accepted in the future, then you are not loving and accepting yourself in the present.

If you can love, love yourself first.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Nothing can survive without food, including happiness: your happiness can die if you do not know how to nourish it.

Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

We experience emotions as happening to us, not chosen by us.

To have more choice about our emotional reactions, we must first build awareness of the emotional behaviors, experiences, and triggers that we, and others, face. This process allows us to find insight in awareness to help shape our emotional reactions in more thoughtful and constructive ways.

When you know you are of worth, you do not have to raise your voice, you do not have to become rude, you do not have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It does not have to protest.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. When lions are in heat, they mate every 2030 minutes, mating almost 50 times per day.