A Little Weird

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
Dr. Suess

Never Too Old

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

C.S. Lewis

Every little thing....

"Every little thing's gonna be alright!"
Bob Marley

Value

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Maureen Dowd, Columnist

Possible

"It always seems impossible until it is done."
anonymous

Perfect Mother

"There is no way to be a perfect mother and a millions ways to be a good one."
Jill Churchill

Expectations

"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will."
(often attributed to Abraham Lincoln but also said to come from the movie Pollyanna)

Vocation

"Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."

Frederick Buechner

Books and Life

"The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."


Theodore Parker

Everyone of us....

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."


Mahatma Gandhi

A dangerous place....

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Albert Einstein

Oh Happy Day....from Sister Act 2

This song just makes you feel good!!

A Great and Noble Task

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller

Obstacles....

"Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze."

Barbara Sher

Keep on the Sunny Side sung by the Whites

There's a dark and a troubled side of life
There's a bright, there's a sunny side, too
Tho' we meet with the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
Keep on the sunny side of life
It will help us ev'ry day, it will brighten all the way
If we'll keep on the sunny side of life

I am...

"I am happy and content because I think I am."
Alain-Rene Lesage

Life is a Cabaret!....mood music Monday

"Come taste the wine, Come hear the band.
Come blow a horn, Start celebrating;
Right this way, Your table's waiting.

What good's permitting Some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
So Come to the Cabaret!"

A wonderful upbeat song, sung by the fabulous Liza Minnelli

I am unwritten....

Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

from Unwritten sung by Natasha Bedingfield

"Ya Gotta Have Heart" from the musical Damn Yankees

"You've gotta have....Heart!All you really need is heart!
When the odds are sayin' you'll never win, that's when the grin should start!
You've gotta have hope!Musn't sit around and mope.
Nuthin's half as bad as it may appear, wait'll next year and hope."

Invisible Threads

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Herman Melville

Shiny Happy People

I love this song by R.E.M.! It's fun and, of course, Happy!

A Little Consideration.....

"A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

Winnie the Pooh

"I hope you DANCE" by Lee Ann Womack

A wonderful song with beautiful lyrics! I hope you all dance!

Joy and Pain

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

You are my Sunshine

Wind

The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the REALIST adjusts his sails.
(author unknown)

Simple Gifts - Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss

A beautiful folksong...enjoy!

This Just makes me Smile!!!

Be Thankful

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. 
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey

On the Sunny Side of the Street

HappyThanksgiving!!

Mood Music Monday__Travis Tritt - Great Day To Be Alive

Mood Music Monday___Joy To The World by Three Dog Night

"Jerimiah was a Bullfrog!!!" Everybody sing along....Joooooy to the world! Aaaaall the boys and girls. Joy to the fishies in the deep blue sea. Joooooy to you and me!!

A Single Act of Kindness....

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” 
Lawrence G. Lovasik 

Mood Music Monday____ Good Morning Starshine!

I love this song! Good Morning Starshine sing by Oliver, you just have to be happy after hearing this song!

Mood Music Monday___What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

Today is the first day of my new feature....Mood Music Monday (MMM). MMM's will feature videos of music that makes me happy or that has, what I think, is a good message. Hopefully, you'll agree with me but if nothing else, I hope the songs help you start your week off with a good feeling. Today's song is a classic. What a Wonderful World sung by the fabulous Louis Armstrong.....

All Connected

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. 
Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. 
All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.  
Serge Kahili King

Man's Main Task....

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
Erich Fromm

If you look....

"If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will."
Abraham Lincoln

Life

"Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Auntie Mame