<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916795484298520803</id><updated>2024-08-29T23:47:37.462-07:00</updated><category term="General"/><category term="Happiness"/><category term="KISS"/><category term="principle"/><title type='text'>Choose your own happiness</title><subtitle type='html'>Improve your life, and be happier.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://4ever-happy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7916795484298520803/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://4ever-happy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7916795484298520803.post-2148440865034565887</id><published>2012-02-16T07:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T15:31:17.236-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="KISS"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="principle"/><title type='text'>Keep it simple, Stupid!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;KISS&lt;/b&gt; principle is one of may favorite principles. &lt;b&gt;KISS&lt;/b&gt; is an &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Acronym and initialism&quot;&gt;acronym&lt;/a&gt; for the principle &lt;b&gt;Keep it simple, Stupid!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;KISS&lt;/b&gt; Principle:&lt;/div&gt;
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The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complex, therefore simplicity should be a key goal and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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There are also other variations of this acronym: &quot;&lt;i&gt;keep it short and simple&lt;/i&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;i&gt;keep it simple or be 
stupid&lt;/i&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;i&gt;keep it simple and 
sincere&lt;/i&gt;.&quot; But the point is same.&lt;br /&gt;
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Acronym was created by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_%28engineer%29&quot; title=&quot;Kelly Johnson (engineer)&quot;&gt;Kelly Johnson&lt;/a&gt; who was an aircraft engineer.&lt;br /&gt;
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This principle most likely finds its origins in words of this great minds: &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9KTbf5S3Rn1U_YXZEF-229_-VdkU60I6rDJfS1Ro2i9hZ6CwzlgAUcUW6CqtfTIHG36_1Mg8-b73uFqEpi_RYdfwgllMfLmml7zS6hOpRE0Y1UcBN6dETcnUZa6HCackeiKMnStGrvesY/s1600/kiss.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9KTbf5S3Rn1U_YXZEF-229_-VdkU60I6rDJfS1Ro2i9hZ6CwzlgAUcUW6CqtfTIHG36_1Mg8-b73uFqEpi_RYdfwgllMfLmml7zS6hOpRE0Y1UcBN6dETcnUZa6HCackeiKMnStGrvesY/s200/kiss.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler&quot;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-4&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle#cite_note-4&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
~ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Albert Einstein&quot;&gt;Albert Einstein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&quot;Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
~ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; title=&quot;Leonardo da Vinci&quot;&gt;Leonardo da Vinci&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&quot;It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
~ &lt;i&gt;Antoine de Saint Exupéry &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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Do you have principles in your life to share with me? What they mean to you? &lt;br /&gt;
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It is time for second post on this new &lt;a href=&quot;http://4ever-happy.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;blog about happiness&lt;/a&gt;. I will start with some easy topic. Just to warm up for future articles. This time &lt;span class=&quot;short_text&quot; id=&quot;result_box&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;hps&quot;&gt;I&#39;ll talk&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;hps&quot;&gt;to you about the &lt;b&gt;Golden rule&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Golden rule in life:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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What you do not wish to yourself, do not do to others.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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This is first thing you need to have in your mind, whatever you do in life. Your freedom is on the edge of freedom of the others.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;But, why is this important for happiness?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The answer is easy. What you give you will get. And don&#39;t think that it is some stupid phrase, believe me, it is obviously true.&lt;br /&gt;
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In life, everything that you share it is smaller. If you share apple it 
is smaller, if you share pear it is smaller, only if you share happiness
 it is bigger.&lt;br /&gt;
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We are all one. When one is harmed, all are harmed. When one is helped, all are healed&lt;br /&gt;
~ unknown&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&quot;Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people&#39;s suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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So today, follow Golden rule and share your happiness with others. Sooner or lather it will return to you at last in same amount, but often it is doubled in returning.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is the beginning of my writing in English language. So, primary purpose of this blog is to learn English by writing articles here. For long time I have good understanding and reading, but my conversation and writing skills are not so good. I think that it is time to change that.&lt;br /&gt;
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On this blog you will find interesting things that I have learned, and still em learning. They will mostly be about positive things in life. I will try to help you to find happiness :). There will bi some serious text, but also funny and interesting things.&lt;br /&gt;
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I will be very grateful for every help in my English writing.&lt;br /&gt;
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I have plan to activly write on this blog, so see you soon.&lt;br /&gt;
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Your,&lt;br /&gt;
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