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Abraham Lincoln once said, "Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

The keys to happiness?

The road toward a more satisfying and meaningful life involves a recipe repeated in schools, churches and synagogues.
Make lists of things for which you're grateful in your life, practice random acts of kindness, forgive your enemies, notice life's small pleasures, take care of your health, practice positive thinking, and invest time and energy into friendships and family.

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You Are a Coy Flirt

You may not seem like you're flirting, but you know exactly what you're doing. You draw people in, very calculatingly, without them even knowing. Subtle and understated, you know how to best leverage your sex appeal. A sexy enigma, you easily become an object of obsession.

What Kind of Flirt Are You?

Berman PA Claims Star Trek Is Dead For the Moment

"Les Moonves hates all things Sci-Fi," a former Paramount assistant claimed, explaining that he did not think the new head of CBS was at all interested in reviving Star Trek.

Since the Viacom-CBS split last year, CBS has controlled the television franchise, and Rick Berman's assistant Doug Mirabello said that there is not likely to be a new Star Trek series or film for quite some time. In an interview at Sci Fi Pulse, Mirabello suggested that the franchise needs an entirely new creative team.

The comments were quoted in Dreamwatch after appearing at the Something Awful forums, where Mirabello claimed that the script written by Erik Jendresen for a potential eleventh Star Trek movie had been rejected and that despite Patrick Stewart's recent comments that he had had discussions about a possible future Next Generation film, "It’s more likely that some executive had a casual conversation with him and brought up some hypotheticals which he ran with when some reporter asked him about Star Trek."

Mirabello admitted that it was possible "Paramount is planning something huge and keeping us out of the loop" but he did not believe that Stewart would do another Star Trek movie "unless they paid him Professor X money" - a reference to Stewart's paycheck for the X-Men series.

The Berman assistant said that Star Trek had been successful in the 1980s but "never really evolved with the times." He mentioned an incident where a director went to the producers to "tell them he was ashamed to direct the episode where our crew turned into lizard people" (presumably Voyager's "Threshold"). The Enterprise finale "was one of those where you’d go down to the stage and see people shaking their heads while reading the script."

With UPN and the WB merging, and with Moonves allegedly having expressed disinterest in science fiction - though executives at CBS gave Brannon Braga's Threshold the green light this season - Mirabello was not optimistic about a future for Star Trek, which he said might be for the best, to give the franchise "some time off, and a cool new approach."

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Bertrand Russell:

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bonaro W. Overstreet:

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.

Don Miguel Ruiz:

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Dorothy Thompson:

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

James Thurber:

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Marcus Aurelius:

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marie Curie:

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Thomas Jefferson:

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.