“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Life is a continuous process of growing and changing. Adapt and adjust to life as it challenges you. Learn to swim with life’s stream.
Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth
Must borrow its mirth,
It has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound
To a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure
Of all your pleasure,
But they do not want your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all;
There are none to decline
Your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by;
Succeed and give,
And it helps you live,
But it cannot help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train;
But one by one
We must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
What you do today becomes a building block of who you will be tomorrow. Build something you and all who know you can admire.
“Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.” ~ William Faulkner
Joe: “My wife called me at work and said she started have contractions and said I need you to drive to the hospital.”
Pete: “What happened?”
Joe: “Twenty minutes later I called her from the hospital and said, “What do I do?”
Why waste time looking for reasons not to like someone? Instead, look for reasons to like someone. Does it matter if someone is gay or straight, black, brown, yellow, or white, male or female? We all want to be loved. We all want to be accepted. We all hurt when we lose someone close to us. We all celebrate when someone close to us marries, graduates, or succeeds in an endeavor. Life is better looking for the good.
if you don’t love yourself, how can you expect to love your neighbor. Love the person you see in the mirror and everything else will turn out well
Do you control your emotions or do your emotions control you? When we find a peaceful place where we can examine our emotions objectively we have the opportunity of controlling our emotions and choosing the outcome. Decide whether your emotions will create a positive outcome or a negative outcome. Become the master of your emotions. You are in control.
Brush and Floss Regularly
Swollen or bleeding gums caused by bad oral health may lead to microorganisms traveling into the bloodstream, which could cause inflammation and heart damage. Older adults who skimped on oral hygiene were 20 to 35 percent more likely to die during a 17-year study done by University of Southern California researchers.
