Mind, Body & Spirit

“Don’t go through life, grow through life.”

-Eric Butterworth

“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”

-Lao Tzu

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

-Mark Twain

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

-Zig Ziglar

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”

-Helen Keller

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success.”

-Anonymous

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“In the middle of  a difficulty lies opportunity.”

-Albert Einstein

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”

-Epictetus

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

-Margaret Cousins

“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.”

-William A. Ward

R.I.P Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Simple Living for you…..

1) When we get into the habit of truly paying attention to life, we often find that miracles are all around us. They are simply everyday occurrences seen more clearly.

-Chelle Thompson

2) Live an honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

-Unknown Author

3) Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

-Northrup Christiane

4) Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.

- Unknown Author

5) Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

6) The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

-Helen Keller

7) Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

-Tom Head

8) We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

-Louisa May Alcott

9) Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

-Maria Robinson

10) Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

-Audre Lorde

11) Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

-Dr. Herbert A. Otto

12) No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

-Barbara de Angelis

My pet cat - Mee Mee

Cats from Germany

Cats yawning

Phrases I like

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply, find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."

"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."

"Once you start working on something,

Don't be afraid of failure and

Don't abandon it."

"People who work sincerely are the happiest."

"The fragrance of flowers spreads

Only in the direction of the wind.

But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."

Remark: Reference from forwarded mail...