Smile More, Live Longer.

[Octafish]

Researchers at Wayne State University have determined that the size of one's smile relates to how long a person lives.



Here's a good overview by Ann Driscoll:

It's All in the (Baseball) Cards: The Wider the Smile, The Longer the Life

The WSU report:

Smile Intensity in Photographs Predicts Longevity

So, really, have a nice day!

[seabeyond]

1. eye wrinkles be damn... i like to smile. and makes others feel good too.

the only thing that beats it is a good laugh

[Octafish]

4. A laugh is an instant vacation.

And then you spread it to someone else.
Like a contagious wave, it grows.
Only to stop when it meets someone who,
for whatever reason or hurt,
cannot continue the wave.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Interesting I just watched online

Philosophy – Guide to Happiness


We tend to accept that people in authority must be right. It’s this assumption that Socrates wanted us to challenge by urging us to think logically about the nonsense they often come out with, rather than being struck dumb by their aura of importance and air of suave certainty. This six part series on philosophy is presented by popular British philosopher Alain de Botton, featuring six thinkers who have influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy life. The philosophers are

Socrates on Self-Confidence

Epicurus on Happiness

Seneca on Anger

Seneca argues that
. Anger is more properly viewed as an enemy of a life based on reason. He says that:
".. ..The enemy, I repeat, must be stopped at the very frontier; for if he has passed it, and advanced within the city-gates, he will not respect any bounds set by his captives."


Montaigne on Self-Esteem


Schopenhauer on Love

Nietzsche on Hardship



Watch for free here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/philosophy-guide-to-happiness/

[Octafish]

6. Socrates is the Right Bower of It All.

The part about anger is profound, given our circumstances, where the very air is made filthy by the blood-sucking leeches who've stolen and run the country into the ground since November 22, 1963. And what Nietschze and the rest of them said.

Thank you for the resources in philosophy, Ichingcarpenter. And just thinking of you makes the journey lighter and quicker and infinitely more enjoyable.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Seneca was forced to teach Nero and

saw anger from a master of it. Nero was so brutal that he killed his own wife Poppæa by kicking her to death in anger. Seneca tried to quit many times but Nero wouldn't let him and finally was forced to kill himself or be murdered by Nero.


Reason is the opposite of the passions. We cannot, says Sencea, allow reason to mingle with, and be contaminated by, the passions. Hence he argues against the usefulness of anger.
Seneca says that "there is nothing useful in anger, nor does it kindle the mind to warlike deeds; for virtue, being self-sufficient, never needs the help of vice.

Secondly, reason will never call to its help blind and violent impulses over which it will itself have no control, which it can never crush save by setting against them equally powerful and similar impulses, as fear against anger, anger against sloth, greed against fear.

Seneca, then deals with an objection that states that against the enemy anger is necessary. Anger, in other words is necessary for politics and warfare. Seneca responds:

"...what use is anger when the same end may be accomplished by reason? Anger is not expedient even in battle or in war; for it is prone to rashness, and while it seeks to bring about danger, does not guard against it."



Seneca's Book titled Anger online though I think you can find a better font and organization of the book:

http://www.stoics.com/seneca_essays_book_1.html#ANGER1

[supernova]

11. Thanks, bookmarking for tomorrow

when I'm awake.

:-)

[chill_wind]

3. Joe Biden could live to be 200.. :-)

[Octafish]

7. That's why Reefer is illegal.

Everybody'd be smiling all the freaking tim.e

Heh.

[bobthedrummer]

13. lol

:smoke:

[slipslidingaway]

5. knr - happy instant vacation :))) n/t

[Octafish]

8. Happy Instant Vaca, slipslidingaway!

:)

[slipslidingaway]

9. Thanks :) you out did me :) n/t

[Cetacea]

12. kick