If anyone wants to help me, let them begin at home. There is help needed on your doorstep, in your place of work, in your office, and in your factory. ~Mother Teresa Mother Teresa may be gone, but the legacy of the countless people she helped throughout her life lives on. Her words of wisdom,…
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This post might be a bit different. When we think about joy, most of us don’t think about “submission” being a part of it. But it really can be. I am not referring to anything sexual here, but just the act of submitting to a higher authority. What is submission? Last Sunday at church the…
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I am a firm believer that our attitudes dictate most things in our lives. Because of this belief, I know that the one thing that I need to work on is my attitude. When I was younger—like in my 20s—I had a T-shirt that had a picture of a big guy holding a bat and…
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We have a lot to be happy about in our lives. For one thing, you—yes, you, sitting there reading this blog—you are not just one in a million, but one in 400 trillion. There is no other you. No other person that was designed to do just the things that you were created to do….
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I was sick. I felt like I was going to die…or if not die, at least curl up in a ball and not move again for a long, long time. I spent two days in bed, hardly moving at all. For all I know, I might have been dead. I sure was sick. But at…
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Sooner or later the rain stops and the sun rises again. ― Abhijit Naskar Does it make sense to write about sadness on a blog about finding happiness? Of course it does! Without sadness, how would we ever truly understand what happiness is? I don’t want to be sad—ever—but that isn’t very realistic is it?…
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Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is! ~Dita Von Teese I do not know a single person who has never had a bad day. It…
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ― Mahatma Gandhi How often have you experienced true happiness according to Gandhi’s quote? Personally, I believe that I do every day. Not all day, of course, but at some point every single day I experience the form of…
Read moreI didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. – Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story I’m not always a…
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Tracy Turnblad had a dream… If you have seen the movie “Hairspray,” you’ll recognize the name of Tracy Turnblad. Tracy was the daughter of Edna and Wilbur Turnblad and she had a “big” dream. She wanted to be a dancer on a popular Baltimore TV station show, “The Corny Collin’s Show.” I won’t say more…
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