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The many thousands of column centimetres that are written on the subject of resolutions every new year are a tribute to the fact that human beings are hope-making biological entities.

In a longitudinal study of nuns, researchers studied their auto-biographical sketches written in the 1930s. They discovered that 90% of those who expressed the most positive emotions , who wrote about feelings of happiness and “eager joy” were alive and well at age 85, compared to only 34% of the least cheerful quarter.

Buddha “We are what we think. all that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” John Milton “The mind itself is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.

Researchers have focused on questions such as “ what behaviours and attitudes positively affect happiness and self-fulfillment? Can we learn to be happy?Surprising, happiness researcher Sonia Lyubomirsky discovered that only 10% of our happiness is due to our circumstances