Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -- Lou Erickso
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy
True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action.
- author unknown
Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
- Lao-tse
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen
Yay!!!! It's friday! I hope you are anticipating a great weekend full of laughter and love. Be that light in someone's life by focusing on what you can do to make this weekend special. A phone call can certainly lift someone's spirits. Maybe you want to go the extra mile and volunteer to help someone today. There are many ways one can bring a smile to another. Instead of asking what someone can do for you today, focus on the joy of what you can do for someone else. How can you make today extraordinary? Think of something extra that you can do. It doesn't have to be huge. It can be a simple hello to people you've wanted to talk to, or a visit to someone you haven't seen in awhile. It can be helping the elderly or doing something of service. Live your life on PURPOSE and 'do' something great to make today wonderful.
Wishing you the very best! Blessings... Serenity Star
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
~Kahlil Gibran
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
Wishing you a day full of smiles, and laughter. May you be joyful as you anticipate the next chapter. Live today to the fullest, and remember that to one person in your life you may be the world. One person CAN make a huge difference in this world. Blessings.... Serenity Star
Life is not a matter of having good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Live your life to the fullest. Find good in who you are today, and remember it's a choice to think all you do. It's a choice to focus on the good as well as it's a choice to focus on what hasn't been working for you. The thing is YOU CAN change your future! You CAN believe in yourself and your dreams. So do your best! Write down some goals, and then post that list somewhere that you can see it.
Remember I'm always a phone call away! I'm raising a little boy with Down syndrome and a teenager. I do know what it's like to have a bad day and to have circumstances beyond our control. Just FOCUS on your abilities! God bless!!!!
Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain. anonymous
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. Harriet Martineau
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Thomas Jefferson
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Wishing you a day full of sunshine. If it should rain, celebrate the gift of life anyway! Live today and enjoy the gift of the present. Blessings... Serenity Star
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by
which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we are present in each moment, the past gently rolls up
behind us and the future slowly unravels before us.
- Rev Richard Levy
Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life
around it.
- Brian Tracy
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
Since raising my adoptive little guy with Down syndrome I realize the miracle of each day. What use to be small feats are now grand. The journey I'm on isn't one I had expected, and it hasn't always been easy. However, I know I'm right where I'm suppose to be at this point in my life. Peace comes in knowing that we are going to keep on trying to accomplish our goals, and be joyful in the successes as they come. Wishing you joy, laughter, and peace today! Blessings........... Serenity Star
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen R. Covey
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
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
Tennyson
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
Wishing you a day full of love and laughter today! Serenity Star *always a phone call or email away
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve themselves."
Anne Frank
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. Spencer Johnson
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. William Shedd
Living a good life may mean living on purpose. It's deciding to get off the couch and out of the safety zone of our normal existance. It's waking up believing in your own ability to get past all the future obstacles, and it's daring to live to the fullest. Living a good life may mean putting your focus on the blessings in your life, instead of everything that has ever gone wrong. It's a matter of attitude and perserverance. It's daring to be who you are without the need of approval. To me, it's letting go and trusting in my higher power. It's walking in faith, and letting loose the fears.
It's all about taking baby steps and even if you should stumble or fall you just do it anyway. Wishing you the very best for a fantastic day!
Serenity Star *always a phone call or email away
"Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. " --- Mark Twain
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sypathethic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of those." --- George Washington Carver
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." --- Chinese proverb
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Tony Robbins
Wishing you a wonderful weekend full of love, light, and laughter! Blessings.... Serenity Star
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~ Author Unknown
"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson
A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny rowboat;
if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the
other has to steady it; otherwise, they will
go to the bottom together.
~ David Reuben
The highest love a person can have for you
is to wish for you to evolve into the best person
you can be. No one owns you, no matter what
your relationship.
~ David Viscott
Unconditional love is hard to find. Often we place conditions and expectations on those we love. When you can love someone regardless of their faults, and you can allow them to spread their wings to be the person they were meant to be, then you have found something to treasure.
I wish you love, light, and much laughter regardless of the trials placed upon your path. Blessings,
Serenity Star *always a phone call or email away
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms”; Adlai Stevenson
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts” Adlai Stevenson
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein
I think it's important to have a hunger for life. Change doesn't just happen. We have to intentionally go after what we are hoping to achieve. Just as you go get a drink when you are thirsty. May you find that hunger and thirst for life to step outside and do something new and different!
Each day we have choices to spend time with our kids, our parents, and our friends. I feel time is the most precious thing we can give to our friends and family. May you find yourself blessed with many friends and family members! Blessings.... Serenity Star
*always a phone call or email away
When you speak the truth, you don't have to remember it.
~ Anonymous
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
--- Melody Beattie
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I am permitted to hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
--George Bernard Shaw
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
-- Kahlil Gibran
Wishing you enough of all things! Blessings.... Serenity
Attitude determines altitude.
Anonymous
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Anonymous
“I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”
Pietro Aretino
Honesty is the best policy. Sometimes we need to take an honest look within ourselves when we have a goal to change our lives. We can't keep going around and around in the same pattern expecting different results. Wishing you a blessed day today full of strength, sagacity, and tenacity! Serenity Star *always a phone call or email away
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
- Sister Busche
...Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
- Terence
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be
shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may
be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have
and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
- Anonymous
Take what you need and leave the rest! Wishing you a day full of love, light, and laughter!
Serenity Star
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller
Enjoy today! Blessings.... Serenity *Always a phone call or email away.
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it”
Charles R. Swindoll
“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” Charles R Swindoll
Keeping attitudes in check isn't always easy to do. Yet it can make the difference between a good or a bad day. It can keep one focused on the faults of someone else or just taking a deeper look within. We choose which attitude we will carry for the day. I know that I can be very picky as to which clothes I put on for the day. Yet there have been days when I really should be a little more careful of what attitude I put on in the morning. I need to ask myself if I am being a blessing to others or more of a hindrance to their spirit. Is my attitude lifting others up? I have found when I'm lifting others up then I am also lifting myself up. Bringing the best out in others certainly brings the best out in myself. I wish you the greatest blessings today! Serenity