Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. | Thich Nhat Hanh |
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All posts for the month June, 2012
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail. | Og Mandino |
Don’t confuse your path with your destination. Just because it’s stormy now doesn’t mean you aren’t headed towards sunshine. | Unknown |
An article in the New York Times called “The French Still Flock to Bookstores” explores why, at a time when independent bookstores struggle in other parts of the world, they still flourish in France.
Reading the article transported me to a café in Paris where, by the way, I have never been. I could hear accordion music playing softly in the background as I read.
Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. | Sex And The City |
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. | William Shakespeare |
True friends will stand by your side no matter what happens in life.. #SN&Q
This week, Where’s My Backpack’s Travel Challenge post includes an enchanting description of a secret place in Times Square in New York City, where, simply by standing in the right place on top of the subway grates, people are serenaded by a symphony of bells and tonal sounds, which drowns out the noise of the city and creates a “secret peaceful island in the middle of a sea of chaos.” Please go check out her story – I dare you not to want to visit this secret space in New York City!
A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. | Anonymous |
