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IveyGirl
Quit Date: August 30, 2006
Posts: 84 Location: Florida
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Posted: September 13, 2006 9:08 AM Post subject: Happiness is a choice... |
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Today's thought is:
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Resentments are guaranteed to hinder our growth. We can never know full happiness when resentment clouds our vision. Why is it so hard for us to "forget" the small injuries of life? We have never been promised freedom from pain. Many of the lessons we are destined to learn will scuff our egos. But we will know happiness, completely, if we free our minds of resentments.
The formula for happiness is simple. We don't need material wealth, a perfect job, or an exceptional relationship. In fact, it's possible to know happiness with no job, very little money, and no significant other. Happiness is a by-product of a healthy attitude. And a healthy attitude is one that takes the normal turmoil of life and mixes it with a belief in God's presence. The result is an acceptance of God's will and a certainty that, in spite of appearances, all is well.
I am in charge of my attitude today. Happiness is a choice I can make regardless of what the people around me are doing. _________________
We are better than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
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kevin Site Admin
Quit Date: -
Posts: 9538 Location: cincinnati, oh
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Posted: September 13, 2006 10:19 AM Post subject: |
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"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
~ Abraham Lincoln
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keep choosing life!
kevin
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Lori
Quit Date: March 18, 2006
Posts: 521 Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted: September 13, 2006 2:38 PM Post subject: |
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Choice requires us to take responsibility, but once we do so, choice liberates us with empowerment.
Lori |
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shevie
Quit Date: May 23, 2005
Posts: 413 Location: Grants Pass, OR, USA
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Posted: September 13, 2006 3:21 PM Post subject: |
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IveyGirl, your timing is impeccable. Right when I needed it! Thanks.
Shevie _________________
If you study something in the right light, how can there be any darkness? Dave Gardner
Quit date: May 23, 2005 |
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Rusty
Quit Date: December 13, 2004
Posts: 497 Location: North Florida
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Posted: September 13, 2006 9:55 PM Post subject: |
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Excellent...much needed today. Thanks!
Rusty _________________
The Buddha says: 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. |
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Barbara K.
Quit Date: December 23, 2004
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Posted: September 14, 2006 3:41 AM Post subject: |
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Thanks Ivy,
This is very good.
Blessings, _________________
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn arouind and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Blessings,
Barbara K. |
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Free
Quit Date: May 12, 2006
Posts: 826 Location: USA
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Posted: September 14, 2006 10:29 AM Post subject: |
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There is no key to happiness. The door is always open. _________________
Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement.
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. |
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marw
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Posted: September 14, 2006 10:25 PM Post subject: |
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