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

Finish...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kind words can be...

Kind Words

Kind words do not cost much. 
They never blister the tongue or lips. 
They make other people good-natured. 
They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal

Richest

The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. 
Henry David Thoreau

Invent Yourself

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise. 
Maya Angelou

Fluff

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

Winnie the Pooh

Act...

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

Do good...

Do good and care not to whom.
Proverb

How....

How will you give something beautiful to the world?

True Happiness...

True happiness may be sought, thought or caught...but never bought.
Anon

Rivers know....

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

Winnie the Pooh

Only after.....

Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Cree Indian Prophecy

Something Happened on the Way...

  “"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."”

Winnie the Pooh

Poetry and Hums....

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.”

Winnie the Pooh

Key to Success

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby

A dream....

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
Denis Waitley

To Accuse..

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus

Sometimes....

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Winnie the Pooh

Resolve....

"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery."
Matthew Arnold

Don't Wait

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill

If ever...

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you.”

Winnie the Pooh

Sign of Intelligence

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

Past, Present, Future

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol

Don't ask...

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

Be

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss

Love

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”
Sam Keen

picture love_3_by_mjagiellicz

Watch your thoughts.....

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

A Spark

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

Life

Be firm....

Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea.
Think of the Earth as a Mother. This is one Earth.
Don't be divided by thinking of yourself as belonging to different countries.
This is one Earth.

Dare to let go...

"See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work.
Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea."

Guy Finley

Dare

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Eugene F. Ware

Riches

"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”
Mahummad Ali

Knocked Down

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Vince Lombardi

In Yourself

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - in himself.
Erich Fromm