"Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful, or rich will make you happy.”

—Shawn Achor

"Within moments of logging on to social media, we have instant access to others’ accomplishments, vacations, job promotions, home upgrades, and culinary creations. It’s hard to be happy if we constantly concern ourselves with how we measure up to those around us.

Gratitude has the opposite effect of social comparison — it redirects our attention to the many wonderful things we already have in our lives that we have likely taken for granted.”

—Timothy Bono, Ph.D., Psychology Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

   "The art of being happy lies in the    power of extracting happiness from     common things."

—Henry Ward Beecher

               patio fountain—
               a drop of water marks
               my page

               —rmh²

[ Creative Chaos ]

"When the going gets chaotic, the creative get going!"

—rmh²

               "The Theory of Rhythm"
                          [ r x m = h² ]

                           "Over time,
                    routines (r) create a 
                personal momentum (m) 
            that transforms ones’ life into
               a rhythm of harmony (h) 
                   and happiness (h)."

                  —Robert M. Hopkins
                          (aka rmh²)

—Lao Tzu 

—Martin Luther King, Jr. 

—William Penn 

         "For life and death are one, 
        even as the river and the sea 
                        are one."

                 —Khalil Gibran