In Praise of Melancholy

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October 3, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. - Kahlil Gibran - In Praise of Melancholy "Eighty-four percent of Americans claim to be happy, a statistic that Wake Forest University English professor Eric G. Wilson finds "strange at best, troubling at worst." With a litany of self-help books, pills and plastic surgery to feed an addiction to happiness, he says, "It's now easier than ever before to live a trouble-free life, to smooth out the rough edges, to hide the darkness." In his recent book Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, Wilson --a non-recovering melancholic by choice --praises sorrow as the muse of many writers and songwriters, warning that to rid life of it is to rid life of a vital source of creativity." { read more } Be The Change Instead of pushing it away, experiment with embracing natural sadness as it arises in your own life. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Top 5 Regrets of the Dying Offbeat Graduation Speech Gets Standing Ovation How We Can Change Our Minds The Joy of Quiet A Change of Heart Changes Everything The Power of Touch 8 Weeks to a Better Brain How To Trick Your Brain for Happiness DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 121,006 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Students Step Up the Kindness

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October 2, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. - Stephen Jay Gould - Students Step Up the Kindness How amazing would it be to start the first day of school receiving random acts of kindness from your fellow students? Last year, a hundred students at Kansas State huddled early in the morning to see just how they could pool their time, money and creativity to surprise (and perhaps shock!) their fellow students with unexpected generosity. From a welcome applause to paying for meals to wowing a driver with parallel park assistance, this warm video shares many uplifting moments. { read more } Be The Change Think of five ways in which you can provide support for the people immediately around you. Give your time, items, ideas, kind words, or even a smile. Simple actions can have big effects! COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 10 Worst Listening Habits -- and Their Cure A 39-year-long Lesson in Forgiveness The 3 A's of Awesome Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time 11 Amazing Thank You Notes Inside Tim Tebow's World of Kindness No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World Can Positive Thoughts Help Heal Another? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 120,957 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Habit of Starting

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October 1, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Habit of Starting "The biggest reason people fail at creating and sticking to new habits is that they don't keep doing it. That seems obvious: if you don't keep doing a habit, it won't really become a habit. So what's the solution to this obvious problem? Find a way to keep doing it. When you look at it this way, the key to forming a habit is not how much you do of the habit each day (exercise for 30 minutes, write 1,000 words, etc.), but whether you do it at all. So the key is just getting started. Let me emphasize that: the key to forming a habit is starting each day." { read more } Be The Change Start something today that you have been intending to do for awhile. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Man & Dog: A Picture that Moved the World 10 Keys to Happier Living 5 Powerful Tools for Reflection Man Builds Fairy Tale Home -- For $4700 11 Amazing Thank You Notes The Untapped Power of Smiling No Greater Joy: Photos from Around the World A Professor's Lesson 30 Years Ago DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 120,889 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Dolphin Murals: An Artist Turns Activist

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September 30, 2012 a project of ServiceSpace Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. - William Arthur Ward - Dolphin Murals: An Artist Turns Activist "After watching a documentary about the annual slaughter of dolphins that takes place in Taiji, Japan, Filipino artist and environmental activist AG Sano was so overcome with emotion that he quit his job and dedicated himself to giving life back to these dolphins, one painted wall at a time... Twenty months later, a spontaneous reaction fuelled by one man's anger and sadness has evolved into an awareness campaign involving over 35,000 dolphins painted on more than 200 walls -- from schools to houses to public buildings, and involving more than 25,000 volunteers. { read more } Be The Change Participate in a cause that moves you. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Zero-Waste Living 100 Places to Go Before They Disappear The 13-Year Old Who Is Foresting the World Do Trees Talk to Each Other? Building Green Houses from Garbage Office Workers Raise 5 Day Old Kitten Emotional Lives of Animals Life Lessons from A Winged Visitor DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 120,872 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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