Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Too often, if we are feeling sad or depressed, we think we have to do whatever to stop being sad or upset and make ourselves feel better. What I have learned, however, is that resisting negative feelings only makes it worse. The best thing to do when we get sad is to accept it. Use it as a time to be by yourself and listen to music or reflect and write in your diary. It can be a time filled with insight and answers to questions like: What is important to me? What does it mean to love myself? What do I need? ----You will find that the answers to these questions are very clear to you when you are hurting.

If you wake up this morning with more health than illness... you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment or the pains of starvation... you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If your parents are still alive and still married... you are very rare, even in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful... you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder... you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.

Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are!

 By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life. Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give it; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery and Today is a gift: that’s why we call it “The Present”.