“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
“Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can’t change.” ~ Drake
NOTE: Spend your emotional and physical energy on those things that bring joy, love, and happiness to you and those you love. Don’t waste a second on fretting over what you can’t change or being yanked into someone else’s chaotic ride.
“Never save the best for later. You don’t know what tomorrow holds.” Paulo Coelho
NOTE: No one is guaranteed the next moment. It’s a good reason to give it all we’ve got all the time. If we do, we’ll know we put everything on the table every moment. We’ll have lived a well-fulfilled life.
Joe: “My son asked me, “Does Gramma have to die?”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I said, “Well son, she did commit a capital crime.”
“Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.”
While the winds wing us
Sighs from The Gone,
Nearer to dawn
Minute-beats bring us;
When there will sing us
Larks of a glory
Waiting our story
Further anon –
Anon!
Doff the black token,
Don the red shoon,
Right and retune
Viol-strings broken;
Null the words spoken
In speeches of rueing,
The night cloud is hueing,
To-morrow shines soon –
Shines soon!
“If you’re feeling down, simple activities like going for a walk in nature, petting a dog or cat, kissing a loved one, and yes, even forcing yourself to smile, can help those neurotransmitters do their job and raise your mood.” Source
NOTE: Step one to feeling better is to stop doing what you are doing if you’re feeling down. Take a ten minute joy-filled break and do something that brings you joy (the above quote offers great suggestions). When you get back to work, you feel energized and more alive. The folks around may wonder what’s wrong, and ask, “Why are you smiling?”
Easter Night
Alice Meynell
All night had shout of men
And cry of woeful women filled his way;
Until that noon of sombre sky
On Friday, clamour and display smote him;
No solitude had He,
No silence, since Gethsemane.
Public was death;
But power, but Might,
But life again, but Victory,
Were hushed within the dead of night,
The shuttered dark, the secrecy.
And all alone, alone, alone,
He rose again behind the stone.
