[manmal]

There is this German saying: "Happiness equals results minus expectations". And I have to agree, expectations are easy to miss, especially when you don't learn to lower them. I used to constantly get late to basically anywhere because I just did not factor in the time to shower, reading emails between putting on clothes, etc. And boy did this stress me out. When I started to pay more attention to my life in general (focus on the current moment and such), such stressors just disappeared because I learned to not get into such situations.

[bobbyong]

Pretty cool German saying. Care to write it in German? I did learn a lil German n would be interested to know it :)

[cseelus]

Glück ist Wirklichkeit minus Erwartungen.

(As far as I know think this saying originated in Hinduism in the first place and found its way into the german linguistic area somehow)

[manmal]

I know it as "Glück ist Erreichtes minus Erwartetes.", pretty much the same.

[ironchef]

I'm surprised it's not a massive singular compound word

[bobbyong]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing! There's a lot of wise words of wisdom from the eastern religions