tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79402662024-03-13T08:20:34.242-04:00LightonecandleI would rather light one candle, than curse the darkness.
Mother Teresa
This "blog" is a present to myself. I pledge to try and post something positive about people, places and things, every day. Note: The keyword is "try".The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-78369476600362212142010-09-24T00:56:00.001-04:002010-09-24T00:59:39.395-04:00LIFE CHANGES, WHEN WE CHANGE“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them, <br />with illumination and forgiveness". <br /><br />Your willingness to wrestle with your demons, <br />will cause your angels to sing. <br /><br />Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” <br />~ August Wilson ~The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-33552248423049428322010-09-21T10:28:00.001-04:002010-09-21T10:28:49.298-04:00LIFE!A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. <br />*~*~George Bernard Shaw*~*~The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-10345589446665083172010-09-20T18:34:00.000-04:002010-09-20T18:35:14.941-04:00TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUENever explain yourself to anyone.<br />Because the person who likes you doesn't<br />need it,<br />And the person who dislikes you won't believe it!The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-43061770843425524382010-09-19T18:53:00.001-04:002010-09-19T18:55:33.548-04:00HUMAN POTENTIALHuman potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is<br />wrong. <br />Absolutely wrong. <br />You are deceiving yourself. <br />We all have the<br />power of thought - so what are you lacking? <br />If you have willpower, then you can change anything. <br />It is usually said that you are your own master.” <br /><br />*~* The Dalai Lama *~*The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-4797240478501501142010-09-17T00:45:00.001-04:002010-09-17T00:48:25.903-04:00SELFISHNESSIf you can disentangle yourself from your selfish self,<br />All heavenly spirits will stand ready to serve you.<br />Mawlana Jalal-ud-din al Rumi.The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-33036003058959701142010-09-17T00:33:00.000-04:002010-09-17T00:37:18.541-04:00FAITH"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark." <br />Rabindranth TagoreThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-63040779391229786802010-09-17T00:30:00.001-04:002010-09-17T00:32:34.396-04:00LOVEDo you have memory of the day we met, <br />When the halo of your spirit surrounded us, <br />And the Angels of Love<br />Floated about, singing the praise of the soul's deed?<br /><br />And think not you can direct the course of love, <br />If it finds you worthy, it directs your course!<br /><br />Khalil GibranThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-86523200738617121652010-09-17T00:24:00.004-04:002010-09-17T00:50:30.657-04:00In tribute to my friend! R.I.P. Ronnie BhatiaI said I loved him. <br />And love comes in different shapes. <br />Sometimes it comes in wisdom; at other times in justice; and oftentimes in hope. <br /><br />My love for him sustained my hope of seeing the light in him triumph over the darkness. <br />But I knew not when and where would his defilement turn into purity, his brutality into meekness, his recklessness into wisdom. <br /><br />Man does not know in what manner the soul frees itself from the slavery of matter until after it is freed. <br />Neither does man know how the flowers smile save after the coming of the morn.<br /><br />Khalil Gibran in Thoughts & Meditations - A Story of A FriendThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-83110326495890559442010-09-17T00:23:00.001-04:002010-09-17T00:24:44.673-04:00~*~AT LEAST WE DID NOT DIE~*~Check in with you perspective on things... "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." - BuddhaThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-37314684704181649142010-09-17T00:22:00.000-04:002010-09-17T00:23:13.462-04:00GIVING UP!Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all - Dale CarnegieThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-49993002832827709632010-09-17T00:21:00.001-04:002010-09-17T00:22:40.533-04:00Argentinian Proverb~*~ A man who develops himself is born twice ~*~The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-36304045223686957732010-09-17T00:20:00.000-04:002010-09-17T00:21:41.353-04:00Anyone can give upAnyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-85988541979151048362010-09-17T00:19:00.000-04:002010-09-17T00:20:33.047-04:00THANK YOU!If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. <br />- Meister Eckhart -The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-30968910460783662282010-09-17T00:18:00.000-04:002010-09-17T00:19:22.967-04:00Change your thinking!You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions. -  Adlin SinclairThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-40659568068441939982010-09-16T23:57:00.002-04:002010-09-17T00:01:33.947-04:00Sand and StoneTWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING<br />THROUGH THE DESERT<br />DURING SOME POINT OF THE<br />JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN<br />ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND<br />SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE<br />IN THE FACE.<br />THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED<br />WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT<br />SAYING ANYTHING,<br />WROTE IN THE SAND...<br />TODAY MY BEST FRIEND<br />SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.<br />THEY KEPT ON WALKING,<br />UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS,<br />WHERE THEY DECIDED<br />TO TAKE A BATH<br />THE ONE WHO SLAPPED HIS FRIEND GOT STUCK IN THE<br />MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING,<br />BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.<br />AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM<br />THE NEAR DROWNING,<br />HE WROTE ON A STONE:<br />'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND<br />SAVED MY LIFE'<br />THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED HIS BEST FRIEND<br />AND THEN BEEN SAVED BY HIS BEST FRIEND<br />ASKED HIM, <br />'AFTER I HURT YOU,<br />YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW,<br />YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?'<br />THE FRIEND REPLIED<br />'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US<br />WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN<br />IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF<br />FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.<br /><br />BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES<br />SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,<br />WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE<br />WHERE NO WIND<br />CAN EVER ERASE IT'!!<br />LEARN TO WRITE<br />YOUR HURTS IN<br />THE SAND AND TO<br />CARVE YOUR<br />BENEFITS IN STONE.<br />THEY SAY IT TAKES A<br />MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON,<br />AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,<br />A DAY TO LOVE THEM,<br />BUT THEN<br />AN ENTIRE LIFE<br />TO FORGET THEM.The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-47520444284476153022010-02-08T22:21:00.000-05:002010-02-08T22:22:25.478-05:00Quote for today"In the end nothing we do or say in this lifetime<br />will matter as much<br />as the way we have loved one another."<br /><br />Daphne Rose KingmaThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-41000997743538384162009-12-29T22:05:00.000-05:002009-12-29T22:06:02.196-05:00LIFE!"Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward." ~Henry Ford<br /><br />"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." ~Leonardo daVinciThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-70790456731493683752009-03-18T12:25:00.000-04:002009-03-18T12:27:11.075-04:00WEATHER REPORT *~By BJ Gallagher~*"Any day I'm vertical<br /> is a good day"<br />...that's what I always say.<br />If you ask me,<br />"How are you?"<br />I'll answer, "GREAT!"<br />because in saying so,<br />I make it so.<br />When Life gives me dark clouds and rain,<br />I appreciate the moisture<br />that brings a soft curl to my hair.<br />When Life gives me sunshine,<br />I gratefully turn my face up<br />to feel its warmth on my cheeks.<br />When Life brings fog,<br />I hug my sweater around me<br />and give thanks for the cool shroud of mystery<br />that makes the familiar seem different and intriguing.<br />When Life brings snow,<br />I dash outside to catch the first flakes on my tongue,<br />relishing the icy miracle that is a snowflake.<br />Life's events and experiences<br />are like the weather -<br />they come and go,<br />no matter what my preference.<br />So, what the heck?!<br />I might as well decide to enjoy them.<br />For indeed,<br />there IS a time for every purpose<br />under Heaven.<br />And each season brings its own unique blessings.The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-39379146371286323902009-03-17T11:40:00.004-04:002009-03-17T11:49:08.572-04:00From: GOD-To-YouTo: YOU<br />Date: TODAY<br />From: GOD<br />Subject:YOURSELF<br />Reference: LIFE<br /><br />This is God.Today I will be handling All of your problems for you. <br />I Do Not need your help. <br />So, have a nice day.<br /><br />I love you.<br /><br />P.S.<br /><br />And, remember...<br /><br />If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle,<br />Do Not attempt to resolve it yourself !! <br />Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box. <br />*I will get to it in MY TIME.*<br />All situations will be resolved, but in My time, not yours*.<br /><br />Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold onto it by worrying<br />about it. <br />Instead, focus on all the wonderful things that are present in your life now.<br /><br />If you find yourself stuck in traffic, don't despair. <br />There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard of privilege.<br /><br />Should you have a bad day at work; <br />Think of the man who has been out of work for years.<br /><br />Should you despair over a relationship gone bad; <br />Think of the person who has never known what it's like to love and be loved in return.<br /><br />Should you grieve the passing of another weekend; <br />Think of the woman in dire straits, working twelve hours a day, seven days a week to feed her children..<br /><br /><br />Should your car break down, leaving you miles away from assistance; <br />Think of the paraplegic who would love the opportunity to take that walk.<br /><br />Should you notice a new gray hair in the mirror; <br />Think of the cancer patient in chemo who wishes she had hair to examine.<br /><br />Should you find yourself at a loss and pondering what is life all about,<br />asking what is my purpose? <br />Be thankful. There are those who didn't live long enough to get the opportunity.<br /><br />Should you find yourself the victim of other people's bitterness, ignorance,<br />smallness or insecurities; <br />Remember, things could be worse. You could be one of them!<br /><br />Should you decide to refer this to a friend; <br />Thank you, you may have touched their life in ways you will never know!<br /><br />Now, you have a nice day,<br /><br />GodThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-79903588844199151862009-03-13T13:29:00.001-04:002009-03-13T13:31:03.574-04:00The Greatest, the most and the worstThe most useless thing to do ... ........Worry <br /><br />The greatest Joy....................... .........Giving <br /><br />The worst emotion...................expectation<br /><br />The best emotion...................acceptance <br /><br />The greatest loss.................Loss of self-respect <br /><br />The most satisfying work.............. ...Helping others <br /><br />The ugliest personality trait......................Selfishness <br /><br />The most endangered species...................Dedicated leaders <br /><br />The greatest "shot in the arm"..................Encouragement <br /><br />The greatest problem to overcome.......... .....Fear<br /><br />Most effective sleeping pill............ ...Peace of mind <br /><br />The most crippling failure disease..... ....Excuses <br /><br />The most powerful force in life.............. ........Love <br /><br />The most dangerous pariah..................................A gossiper <br /><br />The world's most incredible computer... ...The brain ! <br /><br />The worst thing to be without....................Hope <br /><br />The deadliest weapon.... The tongue....... <br /><br />The two most power-filled words................"I Can" <br /><br />The greatest asset.............. ...Faith <br /><br />The most worthless emotion................Self-pity <br /><br />The most prized possession................Integrity <br /><br />The most beautiful attire................ ...A SMILE! <br /><br />The most powerful channel of communication..... ...Prayer <br /><br />The most contagious spirit............ .....Enthusiasm <br /><br />The most important thing in life....... ........GOD!The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-52168165181849626202009-02-09T17:19:00.001-05:002009-02-09T17:22:18.677-05:00A special someone shared this with me!!HANDBOOK 2009<br /><br />Health: <br /><br />1. Drink plenty of water. <br /><br />2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar. <br /><br />3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants. <br /><br />4.. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy. <br /><br />5. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. <br /><br />6. Play more games. <br /><br />7. Read more books than you did in 2008. <br /><br />8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. <br /><br />9. Sleep for 7 hours. <br /><br />10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile. <br /><br /><br />Personality:<br /><br />11. Don't compare your life to others'. <br /> You have no idea what their journey is all about. <br /><br />12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. <br /> Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment. <br /><br />13. Don't over do. Keep your limits.. <br /><br />14. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.<br /><br />15.. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip. <br /><br />16. Dream more while you are awake. <br /><br />17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.<br /><br />18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. <br /> That will ruin your present happiness. <br /><br />19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others. <br /><br />20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present. <br /><br />21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you. <br /><br />22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. <br /> Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and <br /> fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime. <br /><br />23. Smile and laugh more. <br /><br />24. You don't have to win every argument.. Agree to disagree.<br /><br /> <br />Society: <br /><br />25. Call your family often. <br /><br />26. Each day give something good to others. <br /><br />27. Forgive everyone for everything. <br /><br />28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6. <br /><br />29. Try to make at least three people smile each day. <br /><br />30. What other people think of you is none of your business. <br /><br />31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.<br /><br /> <br />Life:<br /><br />32. Do the right thing! <br /><br />33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful. <br /><br />34. GOD heals everything. <br /><br />35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. <br /><br />36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. <br /><br />37. The best is yet to come. <br /><br />38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it. <br /><br />39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.<br /><br /> <br />Last but not the least:<br /><br />40. Please share this with everyone you care aboutThe Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-91323894229830199742009-02-04T18:29:00.005-05:002009-02-04T18:40:28.051-05:00More wise sayings'Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet<br />is fighting some kind of battle.'<br /><br />A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.<br /><br />If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.<br /><br />Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.<br /><br />The best vitamin for making friends..... B1.<br /><br />The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.<br /><br />The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge..<br /><br />One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.<br /><br />You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself.<br /><br />If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.<br /><br />One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.<br /><br />Ideas won't work unless 'you' do.<br /><br />Your mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.<br /><br />The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.<br /><br />The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime! <br /><br />It is never too late to become what you might have been.<br /><br />Life is too short to wake up with regrets. <br />So love the people who treat you right. <br />Forget about the one's who don't. <br />Believe everything happens for a reason. <br />If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. <br />If it changes your life, let it. <br />Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it<br />would be worth it.<br /><br />Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them<br />back. <br />Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may<br />not even notice that we've let them fly away. <br />Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong.<br />Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too<br />late. <br /><strong>I don't want to let that happen so I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.</strong>The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-13008956757855834872009-01-22T15:46:00.002-05:002009-01-22T15:53:22.961-05:00HONOUR THY MOTHERAfter 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to<br />dinner and a movie.<br />She said, 'I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would Love<br />to spend some time with you.'<br /><br />The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my Mother, who has been<br />a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three children had<br />made it possible to visit her only occasionally.<br /><br />That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a<br />movie. 'What's wrong, are you well,' she asked? My mother is the type of woman who<br />suspects that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news.<br /><br />'I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you,' I responded 'just the two of us.' She thought about it for a moment, and then said, 'I would like that very much.'<br /><br />That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit nervous.<br />When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous<br />about our date. She waited in the door with her coat on. <br />She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. <br />She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel's.<br />'I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were<br />impressed,' she said, as she got into the car. 'They can't wait to hear<br />about our meeting.'<br /><br />We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and cozy.<br />My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady.<br /><br />After we sat down, I had to read the menu.<br />Her eyes could only read large print. Half-way through the entrees, I<br />lifted my eyes and saw Mother sitting there staring at me.<br />A nostalgic smile was on her lips.<br /><br />'It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small,' she said.<br />'Then it's time that you relax and let me return the favor,' I responded.<br />During the dinner , we had an agreeable conversation nothing extraordinary<br />but catching up on recent events of each other's life. We talked so much that<br />we missed the movie. As we arrived at her house later, she said, 'I'll go out<br />with you again, but only if you let me invite you.' I agreed.<br /><br />'How was your dinner date?' asked my wife when I got home. 'Very nice, much<br />more so than I could have imagined,' I answered.<br /><br />A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened so<br />suddenly that I didn't have a chance to do anything for her. <br />Sometime later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place Mother and I had dined. An attached note said: 'I paid this bill in<br />advance. <br />I wasn't sure that I could be there; but, nevertheless, I paid for two plates one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what thatnight meant for me.<br /><br />'I love you, son'<br /><br />At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: 'I love YOU'<br />and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve. <br />Nothing in life is more important than your family. <br />Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be put off till some 'other' time.<br /><br />Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've<br />had a baby... somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, 'normal' is<br />history.<br /><br />Somebody said you can't love the second child as much as you love the<br />first... somebody doesn't have two or more children.<br /><br />Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and<br />delivery....somebody never watched her 'baby' get on the bus for the first<br />day of kindergarten... or on a plane headed for military 'boot camp.'<br /><br />Somebody said a Mother can stop worrying after her child gets married...<br />somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a<br />mother's heartstrings.<br /><br />Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home...<br />somebody never had grandchildren.<br /><br />Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell<br />her...somebody isn't a mother.<br /><br /><br />This isn't just about being a mother; it's about appreciating the people in<br />your lives while you have them... no matter who that person is!The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-65027637427350677882009-01-22T15:45:00.000-05:002009-01-22T15:46:05.231-05:00Watch outWatch your thoughts, they become words.<br />Watch your words, they become actions.<br />Watch your actions, they become habits.<br />Watch your habits, they become character.<br />Watch your character, for it becomes...<br />your destiny.<br /><br />'Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of<br />battle'.The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7940266.post-14805963219761701732009-01-13T12:06:00.001-05:002009-01-13T12:06:59.828-05:00Sayings for 20091. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.<br /><br />2. Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. <br />The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.<br /><br />3. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Don’t think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.<br /><br />4.You can’t please everybody. Don’t let criticism worry you.<br /><br />5.Don’t let your neighbour set your standards. Be yourself.<br /><br />6.Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.<br /><br />7.Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.<br /><br />8.Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy. Avoid people that make you unhappy.<br /><br />9.Have many interests. If you can’t travel, read about new places.<br /><br />10.Don’t hold postmortems. Don’t spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don’t be one who never gets over things.<br /><br />11.Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.<br /><br />12.Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.The Heathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174966914220914365noreply@blogger.com0