Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive,
because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive,
because your words become your behaviours.
Keep your behaviours positive,
because your behaviours become your habits.
Keep your habits positive,because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive,
because your values become your destiny.

St Francis of Assisi

                                       A great quote I saw on the blog BluKatKraft - a fun blog about......everything!!

Stacey Charter

Life can be like a roller coaster

And just when you think you've had enough,

and your ready to get off the ride and take the calm, easy merry-go-round...

You change your mind, throw your hands in the air

and ride the roller coaster all over again.
That's exhilaration...that's living a bit on the edge...that's being ALIVE.

Sophacles

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Marcus Aurelius

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

Happy Mother's Day

I have had this list of "My Mother's 15 Simple Rules" by Ana Marie Cox for at least 5 years & I smile every time I read it - I love the wisdom & humor this mother gave her daughter.

1. The legs are the first thing to go.
2. When you're sad, don't fight it-accessorize it. Get some gin and cigarettes, then play Edith Piaf until the CD starts to skip.
3. Knowing how to roast red peppers will impress more people than you'd think.
4.  It's OK to read at the table.
5.  But it's never OK to watch TV at the table.
6.  You can always substitute white wine for vermouth in a martini.
7.  Everything tastes better if it's served by candlelight.
8.  If nothing matches, no matter. That's just another reason for candlelight.
9.  Do not try to order in French at a French restaurant unless you are French.
10. Unexpected gifts are the most appreciated.
11. At work, find the people who can fix things-the copier, mistakes in your expense report-and then be very, very nice to them.
12. The cheap caviar is still quite good.
13. There are five things that will always make you happy if you have them in your home: flowers, a lovely place to eat a meal, a chilled bottle of white wine, Goldfish crackers and a cat.
14. If you must leave a party and don't have a good excuse, spill something on yourself.
15. The proper way to end a conversation is "I'm sorry to let you go,"

Carpe Diem Quotes

It's time to seize the day & get back to my blog! I love these quotes because I can use a little motivation, on occasion!! Enjoy & CARPE DIEM!!!!

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~ Art Buchwald

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. ~Author Unknown

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ~Thoma LaMance

Lost time is never found again. ~Benjamin Franklin

You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough. ~Adam Marshall

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~Ruth Ann Schabacker

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. ~Scottish proverb

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most admired people of the 20th century - a rare gem.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. 

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Sticks

I found this "poem", for lack of a better word for it, years ago. I'm a collector of great poems, statements, articles, Ann Landers-type blurbs, etc. I think this is a wonderful way to live life......

Go places
Know nature
Sit & think
Remember
Love animals
Be excited
Relax
Be calm
Keep time 
Do your best
Be in love
Smile a lot
Go slow
Be a star
Be a friend
Cherish family
Respect others
Float on a raft
Sleep tight
Climb high
Plant flowers
Take a walk
Look out every window
Seek peace
Know truth
Play games
Be creative
Sing & dance
Look up
Stay on track or target
Read books
Follow your heart
Take naps
Smell the flowers
Take chances
Go barefoot

Laughter......

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.  ~Jean Houston

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.  ~Author Unknown

Mirth is God's medicine.  Everybody ought to bathe in it.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.  ~e.e. cummings

Laughter is an instant vacation.  ~Milton Berle

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  ~Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.  ~Yiddish Proverb

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.  ~Alan Alda

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.  I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.  ~Kurt Vonnegut

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.  ~Irish Proverb

Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.  ~Bob Newhart

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.  ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.  ~Françoise Sagan

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."  ~Quincy Jones

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.  ~Anna Fellows Johnston

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.  ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.  ~Abraham Lincoln
 
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.  ~Ken Kesey

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.  ~Mort Walker

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.  ~Victor Hugo

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ~Josh Billings

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.  ~Hugh Sidey

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.  ~Arnold Glasow 

Change...

I just saw the greatest bumper sticker......

                                      Change is inevitable
                             Growth is optional

Mother Theresa - Profound & Uplifting!

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. 

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
 
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. 

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Peace begins with a smile.

Love Quotes...

1. There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.
George Sand
1804-1876, French Novelist

 2. What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
St Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

3. "When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."
Dr Seuss

4. Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederich Ameil
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

5. The best thing about me is you.
Shannon Crown

6. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis

7. If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go.
Anonymous

8. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen

9. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Heather Cortez

10. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
 
                               HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

James Allen

A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.     

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.    

Another Great Saying....

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars...
Unknown

Cervantes

Believe there are no limits but the sky!