Your business...

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

- Horace Traubel

Appreciation

     

We can better appreciate

the miracle of a sunrise

if we have waited in darkness.

-unknown

Goodness...

   

 

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

 

- Henry David Thoreau

LOVE

   

LOVE:

If you judge people, you have not time to love them.

- Mother Teresa

and.........

If you love someone, let them know it.

- unknown

Invitation...

Invitation:

 

One person at twenty feels life is passing him by. Another at

seventy is right in the thick of it. Why is this so? There is no

standard of age or health or prosperity or anything else to bar

some and admit others. Life has a standing invitation out to

everyone. But an invitation is just that. It lets us know where

the party is and that we are welcome. It does not take us by the

neck and drag us there. We are invited to life, but we have to

accept . We have to go where it's happening.

- Ralph Rhea

Happiness

Happiness is a butterfly,

which when pursued,

is just out of grasp,

But if you sit down quietly,

may alight upon you.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

*Blessings...

   

Don't be so busy adding up your troubles
that you forget to count your blessings.

-unknown

Open Doors...

 

Happiness comes through doors

you didn't even know you left open.

 

-unknown

SURPRISE!

"Think you can't change the world?

Too late, you already have. It was changed

for the better the minute you were born.

There are more people than you can imagine

who will never be the same because they came

in contact with you, if only for a fleeting moment."

 

- Gail Pursell Elliott

Thank You...

 

 

Thank you, Lord, for the sheer joy

of wanting to get up and help

the world go around.
- Roxie Gibson

Be Happy...

 

Be happy in the moment - that's enough

Each moment is all we need - not more

- Mother Teresa

Success...

 

You don't have to know how to sing,

it's feeling as though you want to

that makes the day happy and successful.

 

-Monica Crane

Openness

 

Openness:

 

None of us wants to live our lives

 in a private room, closing outthe rest

of the world. It is the openhearted,

open-minded person who sees life as a real adventure. The person who is open to new

experiences and sees them as part

of the growing process faces life

not with fear, but rather with anticipation.

When open to life, we see the potential

for good in ourselves and in others,

and we love to watch it unfold.

Nothing is gained by traveling

through life in a covered wagon.

-Ralph Rhea

No waste of time!

 

Rest is not idleness, and to lie

sometimes on the grass

under trees on a summer's day,

listening to the murmur of the water,

or watching the clouds

float across the sky

is by no means a waste of time.

- J. Lubbuck

Acceptance

Acceptance

How wonderful it would be if we could accept

ourselves and others as we except nature.

We don't expect a palm tree to be like an elm,

or a sunflower to look like a rose. To be fully

accepted by everyone is undoubtedly an

unattainable goal. But it is a wonderful

feeling when there is someone with whom

we can be honest and can discuss our

innermost feelings, knowing that we are still

accepted. To find this kind of acceptance,

we must also be willing to give it in return.

We can only be ourselves if we are willing

to let others be themselves.

 

Ralph Rhea

Our road...

Our road will be smooth and untroubled,

no matter what care life may send, if we

travel the pathway together and walk side

by side with a friend.

~unknown

DON'T

Don't hold to anger, hurt, or pain;

They Steal Your energy and

Keep you from love.

Leo F. Buscaglia

Practice

Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practice.

~unknown

Walls or Bridges...

 

 

A lot of people are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

~unknown

If...

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. 

~ Erma Bombeck