A New Day

This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been given this day to use as I will.

I can waste it, or use it.
I can make it a day long to be remembered for its joy, its beauty and its achievements, or it can be filled with pettiness.

What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.

When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever, but I shall hold something which I have traded for it.

It may be no more than a memory, but if it is a worthy one I shall not regret the price.

I want it to be gain not loss, good not evil, success not failure.

~~Author Unknown

May You Have

Enough happiness to keep you sweet,
Enough trials to keep you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
Enough hope to keep you happy;
Enough failure to keep you humble,
Enough success to keep you eager,
Enough friends to give you comfort,
Enough wealth to meet your needs;
Enough enthusiasm to look forward,
Enough faith to banish depression,
Enough determination to make each day better than yesterday.

~~~By Author Unknown

Quotes on Happiness

“Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.”
Maurice Materlinck

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
Maxim Gorky

To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal."
Earl Nightingale

"Sharing time and talents can result in discoveries that bring happiness beyond measure."
Steve Brunkhorst, from 7 Gifts that Multiply Happiness

"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually."
Stephen Covey

“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle

"We have the ability to determine our happiness hour by hour and day by day, through our thoughts and actions. We make that choice every morning when we get out of bed."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Happiness Is Not The Absence of Problems

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it,
you will find it,
as the old woman did her lost spectacles,
safe on her own nose all the time.”
Josh Billings

"I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems."
Ray Kroc

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
George Bernard Shaw

"Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see a bird that had the blues?
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."
Dale Carnegie

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
William Cowper

"Don't worry, be happy."
Bobby McFerrin

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
Burton Hillis

"Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you."
Sharon Stone

“Happiness grows at our own firesides,
and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
Douglas Jerrold

"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Let us never know what old age is.
Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."
Ausonius

"Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance."
Jim Rohn

"It doesn't get any better than this."
Author Unknown

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
Marcus A. Antoninus

"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."
John D. Rockefeller

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Scottish Proverb

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
Leo Tolstoy

"Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product."
Henry Ford

"If you love what you do, then it is no longer work. The money you earn is secondary when you love your work. Money can never buy happiness, or peace of mind."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Love What You Do

"Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude."
Albert Einstein

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
Anne Frank

"Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be."
Brian Tracy

"A mind employed is always happy. This is the true secert, the grand recipe for felicity."
Thomas Jefferson

"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

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
James Matthew Barrie

"Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit."
Norman Vincent Peale

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
J. Robert Oppenheimer

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Allan K. Chalmers

"Kids are happier, more relaxed, more creative and less stressed when scheduled activities are limited."
Jacquie McTaggart

"Happiness comes from within, not from without."
David DeNotaris

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."
Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness is not the absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them."
Jack Brown

"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."
Og Mandino

"Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are."
Yanni

"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
Richard Bach

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
Author Unknown, from The Road To Success is Always Under Construction

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
The Dalai Lama

"We should be more like children; they truly live in the moment! They don't need expensive things to make them happy; they don't use the phrase, "if only", or, "when I get this", or, "when I have more money". "
Catherine Pulsifer, from Today Is The Best Day

"Strive to be happy."
Max Ehrmann Desiderata

"Happiness depends upon your outlook on life."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Happy New Year

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
Albert Camus

"All happiness is in the mind."
English Proverb

"Did you know that there are gifts that will multiply your happiness when you give them away?"
Steve Brunkhorst, from 7 Gifts that Multiply Happiness

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."
James M. Barrie

"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want."
Elbert Hubbard

"Happiness is a state of mind, an attitude that money cannot buy. One must look for happiness within, rather than in material acquistions. Look in nature, look for the good in others."
M. K. Soni

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
American Proverb

"As you grew, we shared many happy times. As you leave, always take time to laugh every day."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from As You Grew

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."
Dale Carnegie

"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time."
Author Unknown, from Each Day Is A Gift

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within."
Horace Friess

"Happiness is the journey not the destination."
Author Unknown, from Achieve Your Dreams

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Albert Schweitzer

Changes in Life

In every change that you experience in life,
there will be times when you'll wonder if you can endure.

But you'll learn that facing each difficulty one by one isn't so hard.
It's when you don't deal with a situation that if sometimes comes back to confront you again.

Changes are sometimes very painful,
but they teach us that we can endure
and that we can become stronger.

Everything that comes into your life has a purpose,
but the outcome is in your hands by the action you take.

Be wise with your life,
be willing to endure,
and always be willing to face life's challenges

--Author Unknown, Source Unknown

24 Things To Always Remember

Your presence is a present to the world.
You are unique and one of a kind.
Your life can be what you want it to be.
Take the days just one at a time.

Count your blessings, not your troubles.
You will make it through whatever comes along.
Within you are so many answers.
Understand, have courage, be strong.

Do not put limits on yourself.
So many dreams are waiting to be realized.
Decisions are too important to leave to chance.
Reach for your peak, your goal and you prize.

Nothing wastes more energy than worrying.
The longer one carries a problem the heavier it gets.
Do not take things too seriously.
Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets.

Remember that a little love goes a long way.
Remember that a lot … goes forever.
Remember that friendship is a wise investment.
Life’s treasure are people together.

Realize that it is never too late.
Do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Have hearth and hope and happiness.
Take the time to wish upon a start.

AND DO NOT EVER FORGET ….
FOR EVEN A DAY
HOW VERY SPECIAL YOU ARE !

--Author Unknown, Source Unknown

Never Doubt Yourself

If I would leave any thought with someone I would say never doubt yourself. No matter what people say, no matter what you may think sometimes, never doubt yourself. If you believe in yourself you will succeed far more than you will fail. He who possesses a quiet kind of faith in his ability to perform a task already has the task half completed.

Believe in yourself despite setbacks, despite the seemingly immovable obstacles, despite the cold and dark, despite the woe and pain, and eventually your faith will come to fruition, and you will find all those troubles behind you.

The simplest thing in the world is to deride ourselves because we made a mistake, to give up and say, "I'm no good", but the more difficult thing is to believe in ourselves and constructively continue our life. The greatest error in life is to downgrade ourselves. The most horrible tragedies in life have occurred from a lack of faith in one's own self, one's own ability, from a belief that one cannot succeed, but that failure is their sole lot in life.

There seems to be a self uncertainty that builds up in the mind every time one makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a task, and with every successive blunder the uncertainty grows stronger until one doubts one's ability to do anything right. Being human we are host to a number of frailties, each one of which disturbs and depresses us, and makes us doubt our worth. We are not a mechanically precise machine, we are a bundle of nerves which often tangle and get jangled, but are capable of amazing performance.

We have more strength than we believe, there is more fight within us than we know, and far more potential than we could ever call forth or even dream of being possible.

--Author Unknown, Source Unknown