{"id":506,"date":"2008-05-27T22:16:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/05\/27\/choose-to-be-happy\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:16:55","slug":"choose-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Choose To Be Happy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a relationship is over, it stings, and it&#8217;s frightening because you don&#8217;t know what lies ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that what happens from there on is up to you.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to be happy, let go of the belief that you are nothing without him and take on the attitude that <em>you are and can be what you choose to be <\/em>without him.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, let&#8217;s just leave <em>him <\/em>out of the sentence altogether.\u00c2\u00a0 Now it reads:\u00c2\u00a0 You are and can be what you choose to be.\u00c2\u00a0 So choose to be independent.\u00c2\u00a0 Choose to be strong.\u00c2\u00a0 Choose to be happy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dan Baker, PhD, and Cathy Greenberg, PhD, <em>What Happy Women Know, <\/em>p. 127<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a relationship is over, it stings, and it&#8217;s frightening because you don&#8217;t know what lies ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that what happens from there on is up to you.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to be happy, let go of the belief that you are nothing without him and take on the attitude that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-joy","category-letting-go","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}