DumpaLumpagus
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Happiness is...
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Happiness is...
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"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
diplomatic_lies
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Happiness is whatever makes you happy.
Aristotle was a dumba$$.
Aristotle was a dumba$$.
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Sophomakhos
Don Juan
Happiness is being satisfied with what you've got. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't try anything new of course, because that would become boring, and thus you wouldn't be satisfied with what you have. Still, there is a line in one of the Roman poet Horace's Odes that goes thus:
The less I desire, the more I seem to have.
Judge for yourself, ultimately.
The less I desire, the more I seem to have.
Judge for yourself, ultimately.
penkitten
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Happiness is situational.
Happiness is not a state of mind. You can't choose to be happy when you're hurt. It's just plain denial.
To explain happiness is like trying to explain what love is.
There is no answer.
However, I do somewhat agree with Aristotle when he says that it might be a process where we put value in what we perceive to make us happy and trying to attain it.
To explain happiness is like trying to explain what love is.
There is no answer.
However, I do somewhat agree with Aristotle when he says that it might be a process where we put value in what we perceive to make us happy and trying to attain it.
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
DumpaLumpagus
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...A full tank of gas in my tank (BMW), no traffic, a pretty girl in the passenger seat, and a clear mountain road.
...Finding more reason for the journey than the destination, for we never grow when we stagnate in one place too long.
...Always evolving because a new experience expands our perception of time, which is really all we have.
My thoughts
...Finding more reason for the journey than the destination, for we never grow when we stagnate in one place too long.
...Always evolving because a new experience expands our perception of time, which is really all we have.
My thoughts
VoiceofReason
Don Juan
double post...damn.
My bad...
My bad...
VoiceofReason
Don Juan
...a warm gun. Duh.
Tell me someone gets this, please...
Tell me someone gets this, please...
Centaurion
Master Don Juan
^ it's from a cool song (i'm having a brain fart right now so I don't remember the name)
Happiness is when you bust a nut on a snotty b*tches face.
Happiness is when you bust a nut on a snotty b*tches face.
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
I'm Joe Dirt
Master Don Juan
Happyness is self esteem according to Dr Paul on Deep Inner Game.
Fulfillment = Happiness + Success + Freedom
Fulfillment = Happiness + Success + Freedom
DumpaLumpagus
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Bump!
Happiness is seeing Paris Hilton *ucked in the ass!
Happiness is seeing Paris Hilton *ucked in the ass!