A lovely rose with petals soft, a scent so sweet and light. So beautiful a flower, with colors shining bright. But something not so savory about the fragrant rose, the thorns, so sharp upon the stem, that sharpen as it grows. Yet still lovely is the flower, despite the thorns that prick. Just as life…
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MONEY AND YOU
Money can buy finery but not beauty, a house but not a home, medicine but not health. Money can buy luxuries but not culture, fun but not happiness, religion but not salvation, a bed but not sleep, books but not a brain. It can buy food but not an appetite. Money is a passport to…
SHARING HAPPINESS
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ Buddha ~ Unlike most everything in life that is shared, happiness can be given to an infinite number of people, and your happiness will not have been diminished…
PEACE & LOVE OF THE 1960’s
Peace and Love brings us to thoughts of happy times. The 1960’s was a time full of the belief that peace, love and happiness was the way to go. Fashion was freedom. Women had the long, straight hair or the bouffant hairdo, and all contained flowers. Men were happy with their beards, mustaches and long…
HAPPY PEOPLE
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along the way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched and those who have tried. For only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. The…
HAPPINESS IS SINGING
So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~ While you’re figuring out your purpose in life, don’t forget to sing. Many studies suggest that singing—with others, in…
JOY IN MY HEART
Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. ~Mother Teresa ~ A study in the Journal of Family Psychology showed that one of the strongest effects of love in our lives is joy and that joy was created by healthy, positive family and friend relationships, rather than level of…
I AM ALIVE
Sweet Spirit: I am made in Your image and likeness. I am that which You are, continuously expressing as life and love. I am alive in and through You. I am love expressing Itself. I am filled with hope, joy and power. I am one with All that is. I am a conduit for peace and plenty. I…
WHITE EAGLE ON DOING YOUR BEST
Each one of you has been called. Every individual soul has work to do. None can do the work of another. Each must do his or her own work. Therefore, we say, accept it, my child; accept the task laid before you and pray to the Great Spirit that you may not fail. ~ White…
THOUGHTS ON HAPPINESS
If happiness could be bought, few of us could pay the price. If you’re ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence, choose happiness. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others….
PRAYER – ALLOWING LOVE
Sweet Spirit: I open myself to your indwelling presence. May my thoughts and attitudes be loving and may my actions support my words. I hold the thought that it is possible for us to have peace in our hearts and on this planet. I think about how people everywhere want the same basic things…
OUR MIND – AN INFORMING OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and…
MEANING AND PURPOSE
There are winners and losers in life. To be a winner, you must be authentic. Being authentic means looking beyond the superficial aspects of life and finding meaning and purpose in a way that is based in truth within our soul, heart and mind. To do this we must live our truth day after day….
JOY OF SHARING HAPPINESS (Video)
We usually think solely of our own well-being, and forget that there is joy in sharing the joy of other’s happiness. It is only natural for you to feel envious when wonderful things happen to your friends or acquaintances. Rather than envy a friend’s good fortune, think of how much more fulfilled he or she…
A YEAR
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year, while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week. ~ Charles Richards ~ If we choose to enjoy life, this is…
LIBERTY AND FREEDOM
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in…
PEOPLE
When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~ Paul Vitale ~ “Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we…
I’VE LEARNED – ABOUT CHANGE
I’ve Learned: That to ignore the facts doesn’t always change the facts. If you make a mistake, don’t look back at it and get depressed. Take the reason of the mistake into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet to come. If…
BE HAPPY – MEDITATE
People who meditate are much happier and healthier than everyone else. They also have greatly extended life spans. There have been numerous studies showing that meditation dramatically reduces, and even reverses, disease of all types, including cancer. But the benefits of meditation don’t stop there. Studies also show that experienced meditators who are able to…
A GOOD FEELING
If I am feeling down, and my spirits are on the ground, I look towards a star because that is where the Angels are. I look to my Lord above, it is He, I love. No other thing will make me feel like a king. He is my Lord and Savior. I don’t know if…
SECRETS OF SUCCESS
People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to…
YOUR HEART SMILE
We don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but even more true, we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you will keep getting the same results. Don’t go for looks, they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth, even that fades away. Go…
YOUR TIME IS GOLDEN
Time, like all the treasures in the world, cannot be taken with us when we reach our final stop. Some may never be willing to embrace happiness in and with the time that we do have. And yet, for many of us, it seems there are not enough hours in a day. How we spend…
THE HAPPINESS DOOR
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller Don’t look back. Life is in the present. Happiness will come your way when you least expect it. Real opportunities for…