Tag Archives: Happiness

Thought For the Day: Choose Positive Over Negative

Posted on August 12, 2017 by

“Believe in yourself.  Believe you can be happy.  Choose faith over doubt; choose love over hate; choose forgiveness over vengeance; choose honesty over deceit; choose positive thoughts over negative, and allow God to take control of things you can’t.”  – … Continue reading →

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Thought of the Day: Happiness Is the Key

Posted on July 23, 2017 by

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Don’t Cry; Smile

Posted on July 20, 2017 by

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss In the last decade of knowing and loving my two little girls, I have been deeply reminded of something I had long ago forgotten.  Some of the best … Continue reading →

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Carnivalesque

Posted on June 20, 2017 by

There is an on-going celebration tonight in Second Life in honor of it’s 14th Birthday.  I was honored in being asked to read an hour of poetry.  Who knew that an hour is so long? 😉  As I was getting … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Happiness and Dignity Rest On Virtue

Posted on June 13, 2017 by

“The happiness and dignity of man I admit consists in the practice of private virtues, and to this he is stimulated by the rewards promised to such conduct. In this he acts for himself, and with a view of promoting … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Love Makes the Happiness of Another Essential

Posted on June 6, 2017 by

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.  The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: In Being Other Centered, We Find True Happiness

Posted on May 28, 2017 by

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel … Continue reading →

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You Are My Purpose

Posted on May 13, 2017 by

One day, I met a girl.  She gave me beauty, love, dance and happiness. I gave her all of me.   You Are My Purpose by Michael Romani You have become my life And all of my madness You’ve brought … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Happiness of Simple Pleasures

Posted on May 12, 2017 by

“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” – Benjamin Franklin So many these days seem to think that it is the other way around.  That … Continue reading →

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