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    “When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

      “You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

        “When you focus not on what you want, but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you want anyway.” ~ Richard Carlson, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

          “I who am blind can give one hint to those who see:  Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind.  And the same method can be applied to the other senses.  Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow.  Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.  Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again.  Make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides.  But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful.” ~ Helen Keller

            “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

              “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” ~ Bill Bryson

                When you are feeling blue, fill in this list: 10 THINGS THAT MATTER MORE:

                 

                  Stop and take a moment to admire all the beautiful things you take for granted every day.

                  Stop and take a moment to admire all the beautiful things you take for granted every day.

                    "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing & appreciating what we do have." ~ Frederick Keonig

                    “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing & appreciating what we do have.” ~ Frederick Keonig

                      “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John F. Kennedy

                        “We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not.  Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.”  ~ Epictetus

                        A Precious Human Life

                          Every day, think as you wake up,

                          Today I am fortunate to have woken up

                          I am alive, I have a precious human life,

                          I am not going to waste it,

                          I am going to use

                          All my energies to develop myself,

                          To expand my heart out to others,

                          To achieve enlighenment for

                          The benefit of all beings,

                          I am going to have kind

                          Thoughts twords others,

                          I am not going to get angry,

                          Or think badly about others,

                          I am going to benefit Others

                          As much as I can.

                           

                          ~ H.H. The XIV Dalai Lama

                            Let us rise up and be thankful,

                            for if we didn’t learn a lot today,

                            at least we learned a little,

                            and if we didn’t learn a little,

                            at least we didn’t get sick,

                            and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die;

                            so, let us all be thankful.

                            ~ Buddha

                              “Firelight will not let you read fine stories, but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor.” ~ Irish Proverb

                                “Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” ~ Helen Keller

                                  “Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.” ~ Helen Keller

                                    “Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival – to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.” ~ Stephen Covey