May 2015 Blog Posts (20)

“It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.”

Naomi Williams

Do you ever get down in the dumps? I do, but fortunately not for long. When my…

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Joyce Meyer

I was at an open house the other day talking to a priest who knows my grandson who just graduated…

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Mason Cooley

I am writing to you this morning from a desk loaded with accumulated things I should get…

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Here we go again another week, a short…

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

It is another one of those days. Yesterday was full…

As we grow older the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are as old as I am you have learned that that your perspective changes as the years roll by.…

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

I think some of my friends focus too much on what is…

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”

Shannon L. Alder

I was talking to one of my favorite restaurant workers the other day…

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

I hope last week was a good one for you and that this week will be even…

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

Charles Dickens

I was with a friend the other day who thought they had more bad days than good days. This disturbed me somewhat as I know we all occasionally…

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Lee Ann Womack

Why do so many of us seem to feel we would be happier if we were someone else? We really don’t have to feel that or moving to a Pacific Island holds the secret to…

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

I had breakfast yesterday with a flight attendant…

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Many of us feel that we can find something to commit to that will…

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

Last Saturday evening I was at a restaurant with my wife and my oldest daughter when an altercation broke out…

“The control center of your life is your attitude.”

Norman Cousins

A long-time good friend of mine told me he was recently hospitalized and found that he has cancer. We talked for a bit and shared beliefs and I…

Why should we worry about what others think of us; Do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do in our own?

Brigham Young

Hi everyone, I was out and about yesterday for most of the time and came home totally worn out.…

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”

Robert Frost

I hope you are doing well. I am, at least I am getting my energy back after it took a brief vacation while my body made a couple of hospital visits in the last month or so. This morning I am off to the gym…

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

Albert Schweitzer

As I have watched events over the recent past I have been dismayed by…

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

Karolina Kurkova

One of the great things about spring where I live is that you don’t have to go far to enjoy the warmth and beauty of the season. It is not only the…

“Civility costs nothing and buys everything.”

Mary Worley Montagu

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While today is May Day it is another one of those days where I am running behind so I am going back to…