To know Happiness

"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."

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Inspirational

There comes a time when you must stand alone.

You must feel confident enough within yourself to follow your own dreams.

You must be willing to make sacrifices.

You must be capable of changing and rearranging your priorities so that your final goal can be achieved.

Sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.

There are times when you must take a few extra chances and create your own realities.

Be strong enough to at least try to make your life better.

Be confident enough that you won't settle for a compromise just to get by.

Appreciate yourself by allowing yourself the opportunities to grow, develop, and find your true sense of purpose in this life.

Don't stand in someone else's shadow when it's your sunlight that should lead the way.

Friendship is everything.

A Friend

A Friend Like You Will Never Turn Me Away.
A Friend Like You Will Be There For Me Everyday.
A Friend Like You Will Hold Me When I Am Feeling Sad.
A Friend Like You Will Rejoice For Me When I Am Feeling Glad.
A Friend Like You Always Knows What To Say And How To Put It Gently, To Make The Pain Go Away.

God Knows

Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.   What you are is God’s gift to you. What you do with yourself is your gift to God.

A friend loves

Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a
brother is born for adversity

Be Yourself

Be Yourself... There will be challenges to face and changes to make in your life, and it is up to you to accept them. Constantly keep yourself headed in the right direction for you. It may not be easy at times, but in those times of struggle you will find a stronger sense of who you are."

Did you Know

There is a verse in the Bible which has been translated into more than                                                           1100 languages.                                          Do you know the verse ???   John 3:16                                            For God so loved the world,that he gave his only begotten son,that whosoever believeth in him should NOT perish,but have everlasting life....                                                           What more could you ask for.....

Thought of the day 12/21/10

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Make a difference

If you want to make a difference on the planet, this is it: Have nothing in your home or life that you do not know to be useful, believe to be beautiful or know that you will strive to keep in your life forever."

Watch your thoughts

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

How do I love thee

How do I love

thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, -- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Love Is...

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.

Being Wise

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Brotherhood

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Beauty

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want　only destroy.

Beauty

What worth has beauty if it is not seen?

Joy

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Judge me,O God,and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.

Do Not Fear

"So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Proverbs 18;10

"The name of the LORD is a strong tower;
the righteous run to it and are safe."

Psalm 34:19

  A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;

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Love

"Love is a journey not a destination."

"Love is not just an emotion, it's a promise."

"Love is not something you want to feel, it is something you feel without wanting."

"Love is just a word until you find someone to give it a definition."

Changes

The best changes often start as single, simple thoughts. Think big, and discover how to make your dreams real.

Goals

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
 

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
 

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Medicine

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom

Teach Us

Years teach us more than books.

Being Wise

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

Hopes

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Not in Gold

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

To be Wise

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Happiness

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

The Fact

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Good reputation

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Rejoice

To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.

A Good Deed

A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Look into

You must look into other people as well as at them.

Learn Wisdom

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

Failure is Blindness

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Failure

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Succeed

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Work is Healthy

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction

Fear Not

Be just, and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's and truth's.

Now and Here

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here.

Don't Waste

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

Concentrate

the ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

A Wise man

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Man's reach

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?

Durable Success

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Reputation

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

It Requires

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Destiny

Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Character

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

The Key

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key.

All Men Dream

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.

Reach High

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Passion

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Live

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

My Dreams

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Imagination

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason,
-- over every idea.

Shadows

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Life is like dice

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

Life

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Love Life ?

Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.

The Sum of Success

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

True Success

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.

Mental Attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Success

long with success comes a reputation for wisdom

No stone unturned

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."

Work

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.

Inventors

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Take Risk

Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.

Always Do

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Doors

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 that has been opened for us.

Character

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

A Man's Name

A man has three names: the name he inherits, the name his parents give him, and the name he makes for himself.

Memory

A good memory is one that can remember the day’s blessings and forget the day’s troubles

Wisdom

A good deal of trouble has been caused in the world by too much intelligence and too little wisdom.

Trials

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Closed Mouth

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Invisible

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Cherished

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Will power

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

Success

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Life is Art.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should
throw all the paint on it you can.

Possible

It is love that makes the impossible possible

Roses

Love sees roses without thorns.

Love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

DREAMS

Don't follow your dreams,chase them..

Value of a Man

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

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