HAPPINESS
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Posted:Mar 10, 2007 4:13 pm
Last Updated:Sep 30, 2010 8:20 am 17895 Views
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Sharing an email received from Fraz when he went to London to be with his dad who was sick at that time.
I LOVE YOU Babe!
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet curtains that had been hung on her window.
"I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
"Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room .... just wait."
"That doesn't have anything to do with it," she replied.
"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged... it's how I arrange my mind.
"I already decided to love it ... It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
"Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away ... just for this time in my life.
"Old age is like a bank account--you withdraw from it what you've put in."
So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories.
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HEARTPRINTS
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Posted:Oct 9, 2006 4:22 am
Last Updated:Feb 1, 2011 4:12 pm 26253 Views
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HEARTPRINTS
Whatever our hands touch--
We leave fingerprints!
On the walls, on the furniture,
On doorknobs, dishes, books,
As we touch we leave our identity.
O God, wherever I go today,
Help me to leave heartprints!
Heartprints of compassion,
Of understanding and love.
Heartprints of kindness
and genuine concern.
May my heart touch
a lonely neighbor,
Or a runaway ,
Or an anxious mother,
Or, perhaps, an aged grandfather!
Lord, send me out today
To leave heartprints.
And if someone should say,
"I felt your touch,"
May that one sense YOUR LOVE
Touching through me.
-© 1983 Ruth Harms Calkin
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Do More Than
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Posted:Aug 25, 2006 9:07 pm
Last Updated:Oct 12, 2006 12:36 am 23463 Views
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Do More Than ...
Do more than exist ... live.
Do more than touch ... feel.
Do more than look ... observe.
Do more than read ... absorb.
Do more than hear ... listen.
Do more than listen ... understand.
Do more than think ... reflect.
Do more than just talk ... say something.
-John H. Rhoades
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A Love Lesson from DESIDERATA
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Posted:Jul 31, 2006 6:07 pm
Last Updated:Jan 9, 2009 8:08 pm 23810 Views
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BE YOURSELF
Especially, do not feign affection
Neither be cynical about love
For in the face of all aridity
and disenchantment, it is
as perennial as the grass ...
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Let's Begin with Love
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Posted:Jul 4, 2006 4:39 am
Last Updated:Sep 30, 2010 10:17 am 24183 Views
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Lace
 Ah ... love sweet love ...
So magical, so beautiful
Enchanting, Inspiring
So powerful, intoxicating!
Love can heal, love can hurt
Love can make a king its slave!
Here is what the experts Say!
Anna Louise Strong
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
G.W. Von Leibnitz
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Sir Hugh Walpoe
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
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