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Five ideas to be
happy: 1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give what you can. 5. Expect less. |
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How To Turn On Your Psyche Take time to learn. There are so many things to learn, so many places to see - so much still unknown to you. Take time to love life, in all it's beauty and splendor, but do not ignore it's bleakness and poverty, for from that, too, you can learn to love life and appreciate what God has given you. Take time to dream your dreams, and be willing to pay the price to make your dreams come true. Take time to pray, for prayer is of high value in your most desolate days, and your happiest ones, too! Take time to find and set your goals. Set them within reach, but not too close, for goals are something to strive for, to work for, to live for. Take time to reach them, grasp them, and push them behind you. Then take time to find new and greater goals. Take time to think, and find peace within yourself, for only when your soul is at peace can you find beauty or love in this world. Take time to love - God, yourself, the world and people. For God asks that you love, not for Himself, but for yourself! Love in itself is a reason for living and nothing can bring you more happiness. Take time to laugh and to smile, and to see all of the beauty this world has to offer. You owe it to yourself. Take time to cry, for tears cleanse your soul, and wash away your troubles. Take time to forgive others, and yourself. For they know not as you know not, who shall rise and who shall fall. Forgive and move on to new and better things. Take time to please - Others and yourself, for joy comes through giving. Take time to be yourself, and do not hide yourself from anyone.
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We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it. ~Richard Bach~
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interview with God. �So you would like to interview me?� God asked. �If you have the time� I said. God smiled. �My time is eternity� �What questions do you have in mind for me?� �What surprises you most about humankind?� God answered... �That they get bored with childhood. They rush to grow up and then long to be children again.� �That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.� �That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.� �That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they had never lived.� God�s hand took mine and we were silent for awhile. And then I asked... �As a parent, what are some of life�s lessons you want your children to learn?� God replied with a smile �To learn they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is let themselves be loved.� �To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.� �To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.� �To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and it takes many years to heal them.� �To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.� �To learn that there are persons who love them dearly, but simply do not know how to express or show their feelings.� �To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.� �To learn that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by others. But that they must also forgive themselves.� �And to learn that I am here always.�
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How Special You Are
Your presence is
a gift to the world,
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God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. Disappointments are like road bumps, they slow you down a bit but you enjoy the smooth road afterwards.
Don't stay on the
bumps too long. When you feel down because you didn't get what you want, just sit tight and be happy, because God is thinking of something better to give you. When something happens to you, good or bad, consider what it means. There's a purpose to life's events, to teach you how to laugh more or not to cry too hard. You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth. What the heart gives away is never gone... It is kept in the hearts of others. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks. Secure a special place in your heart. A certain place only you can enter. For there will come a time when you need to find yourself and only your heart will show you the way. The measure of love is when you love without measure. In life there are very rare chances that you'll meet the person you love and loves you in return. So once you have it don't ever let go, the chance might never come your way again. It's better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love because of pride. We spend so much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give. When you truly care for someone, you don't look for faults, you don't look for answers, you don't look for mistakes. Instead, you fight the mistakes, you accept the faults, and you overlook excuses. Never abandon an old friend. You will never find one who can take his place and you will need a friend in your life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Leadership by Example The eyes a better pupil and more willing than the ear. Fine counsel is confusing but examples always clear. And the best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds, For to see the good in action is what everybody needs. I can soon learn how to do it if you'll let me see it done. I can watch your hands in action but your tongue too fast may run. And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give, But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live. |
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Horoscope One Liners There is a lot of power in saying no. Redesign your life by eliminating everything that has outlived it's usefulness. Don't play games with erratic or unpredictable people. Don't take chances with your emotional stability. You are stronger and more powerful than your fears. Get rid of lazy and superstitious attitudes you accumulated during times of weakness. Don't accept less than the best for yourself and your loves ones. Make sure you always mean what you say. When in doubt, just be quiet. Accept change as a constant in life. Nothing stays the same, not even your friends. Careless people will jerk you around if you act naive or passive. Stand up for your rights. Attempt to be more emotionally flexible. If you don't bend with the wind, you could break. Be ready to roll with the punches emotionally. Fact facts. You can't always have your way. Make self-satisfaction your biggest concern. You can't please everyone, so why not please yourself? Never act until you understand why your acting, and what you hope to achieve.
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Broken Dreams
As children bring their broken toys
with tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God,
because He was my friend.
But then instead of leaving Him
in peace to work alone.
I hung around and tried to help
with ways that were my own.
At last I snatched them back and cried,
"How can You be so slow" -
"My child." He said, "What could I do?
You never did let go."
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After A While After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. And you learn that love doesn't mean security, and kisses aren't contracts.
After a while you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrows ground is too uncertain. And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
After a while you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of a woman and not the grief of a child.
After a while you learn that you really can endure and you really are strong and you really do have worth. After a while.
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When I don't have expectations of others, anything positive they do is a pleasant surprise.
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Becoming An Assertive Person
I. What Is Assertiveness?
Learning how to state in a positive manner what we want while respecting the rights of others.
II When Is Assertiveness Used?
1. Assertive behavior is used to establish a relationship with someone you want to know or to change or end a relationship.
2. Assertive behavior is used to express your feelings, beliefs or opinions.
3. Assertive behavior is used to state an objection or point of view in opposition to another.
4. Assertive behavior is used to set limits for another person in regard to what can be expected or demanded of you.
5. Assertive behavior is used to obtain something you want.
III What Is Assertive Behavior Made Up Of?
1. Recognition of the other person's feelings or rights (implicit or explicit) - "I realize you like such and such..."
2. Expression of one's own feelings or rights - "However, I like so an so..."
3. Description of desired actions - "Therefore, let's..."
Principles Of Becoming Assertive
1. Decide whether being assertive is appropriate.
Be very cautious about being assertive in legal situations or when there is a physical threat to your body. You may choose to wait until the time is more appropriate - no one likes to look bad in front of a group.
2. Good timing is a must.
Try to be assertive at the time a situation occurs. Do not let things build up until you are at the explosion point. Timing is the key to remaining calm.
3. Realize that it is never too late to be assertive.
You may wish you had been assertive when you were not. You can choose to stop in the middle of being aggressive or passive and become assertive. You can contact the person you missed being assertive with the first time and try it again. You can recreate situations and respond assertively.
4. You must be persistent.
You can learn this from a four year old child.
5. You must take responsibility for what you say and feel.
Send 'I' messages not 'you' messages.
6. You need to maintain eye contact and appropriate facial expression.
Stand straight and well balanced, keep your head erect, and keep your voice calm.
7. You need to practice!
The 10 Assertive Rights
1. You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts and emotions, and to take responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.
2. You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses to justify behavior.
3. You have the right to judge whether you are responsible for finding solutions to other people's problems.
4. You have the right to change your mind.
5. You have the right to make mistakes - and be responsible for them.
6. You have the right to say, "I don't know."
7. You have the right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.
8. You have the right to be illogical in making decisions.
9. You have the right to say, "I don't understand."
10. You have the right to say, "I don't care."
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I am thankful for . . . ....the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed. ....the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ....the clothes that fit a little too snug because it means I have enough to eat. ....my shadow who watches me work because it means I am out in the sunshine. ....a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home. ....all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. .....the spot I find at the far end of the parking lot because it means I am capable of walking. ....my huge heating bill because it means I am warm. .....the lady behind me in church who sings off key because it means that I can hear. ....the piles of laundry and ironing because it means I have clothes to wear. .....weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it means I have been productive. ....the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means that I'm alive.
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TEN THINGS GOD WON'T ASK ON THAT DAY.
1. God won't ask what kind of car you drove. He'll ask how many
people you drove who didn't have transportation.
2. God won't ask the square footage of your house, He'll ask how
many people you welcomed into your
home.
3. God won't ask about the clothes you had in your closet, He'll ask
how many you helped to clothe.
4. God won't ask what your salary was. He'll ask if you compromised
your character to obtain it.
5. God won't ask what your job title was. He'll ask if you performed
your job to the best of your ability.
6. God won't ask how many friends you had. He'll ask how many people
to whom you were a friend.
7. God won't ask in what neighborhood you lived, He'll ask how you
treated your neighbors.
8. God won't ask about the color of your skin, He'll ask how you
treated people regardless of the color
of their skin.
9. God won't ask why it took you so long to seek Salvation, He'll
lovingly take you to His mansion in
heaven, and not to the gates of
Hell.
10. God won't have to ask how much you had in life, He�ll ask how
much you gave.
I believe in the sun even though it is slow in rising.
I believe in you without realizing.
I believe in rain though there are no clouds in the sky.
I believe in truth even though people lie.
I believe in peace though sometimes I am violent.
I believe in God even though he is silent.
