Some more Quotes

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

~Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

~Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

~Helen Keller

Some of my Favourite Quotes

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

~Soren Kierkegaard

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

~Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

"We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow."

~ Jonathan Westover

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

~ Dale Carnegie

Happiness Bank

The "Happiness" Bank Account

A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.
As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window.
"I love it," he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
"Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait."
"That doesn't have anything to do with it," he replied.
"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. "It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life.
Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in.

How about this?

Today I am creating my own presence on the www.

Clearly I am very, very bored.

In case you're wondering the music is called "Gonk" and was composed by myself, many moons ago.