happiness

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Reality

Posted in Abundance, Joy, Life, tagged happiness, Harmony, Love, Meaning, Optimism, Smile, Thought on June 10, 2013 | 2 Comments »

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~ Dr. Seuss

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Nomination for award – “Donna and Diablo”

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Joy, Life, tagged Being, Discovery, Flourish, happiness, Harmony, Living, Meaning on May 18, 2013 | 4 Comments »

My third nomination for the WordPress Family Award is to Lori at http://donnaanddiablo.wordpress.com/ whose blog, “ Donna and Diablo” shares her story as lady-in-waiting to two great dogs: Lola & Beau, also known as Donna & Diablo. As a hopeless dog lover, I look forward to her adventures. Lori’s place provides a wonderful respite to stop by and see what is the next greatest adventure with Lola and Beau, with a pinch of life thrown in.

Thanks Lori for your wonderful stories.

Be well, Bill

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Kindness in human beings

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Joy, Life, Time, tagged Gratitude, happiness, Kindness, Living, Love, Meaning, Reflection, Time on April 8, 2013 | 7 Comments »

” I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don’t respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.” ~ Brendan Behan

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Maybe that was all you could ask for

Posted in Abundance, Joy, Life, Success, Time, tagged happiness, Letting-go, Living, Optimism, Smile, Thought, Time on March 19, 2013 | 9 Comments »

“Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go.

Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said “Walk” the second you go there- and downticks – the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if your friend was possibly dying.

Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.”

~ Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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Friday morning music

Posted in Joy, Life, tagged Being, Flourish, Giving, happiness, Harmony, Hope on March 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

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Love and affection

Posted in Human Spirit, Life, Time, tagged happiness, Harmony, Hope, Joy, Love, Reflection, Self on February 23, 2013 | 9 Comments »

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha

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Earth your dancing place

Posted in Abundance, Human Spirit, Joy, Life, tagged happiness, Joy, Kindness, Living, Reflection, Smile, Time on February 16, 2013 | 2 Comments »

“Beneath heaven’s vault
remember always walking
through halls of cloud
down aisles of sunlight
or through high hedges
of the green rain
walk in the world
high-heeled with swirl of cape
hand at the swordhilt
of your pride
Keep a tall throat
Remain aghast at life

Enter each day
as upon a stage
lighted and waiting
for your step
Crave upward as flame
have keenness in the nostril
Give your eyes
to agony or rapture

Train your hands
as birds to be
brooding or nimble
Move your body
as the horses
sweeping on slender hooves
over crag and prairie
with fleeing manes
and aloofness of their limbs

Take earth for your own large room
and the floor of earth
carpeted with sunlight
and hung round with silver wind
for your dancing place”

~ May Swenson

(Nature: Poems Old and New)

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Posted in Abundance, Joy, Life, Time, tagged happiness, Reflection, Thought, Time on February 11, 2013 | 1 Comment »

“There’s just no accounting for happiness,
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away.

And how can you not forgive?
You make a feast in honor of what
was lost, and take from its place the finest
garment, which you saved for an occasion
you could not imagine, and you weep night and day
to know that you were not abandoned,
that happiness saved its most extreme form
for you alone.

No, happiness is the uncle you never
knew about, who flies a single-engine plane
onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes
into town, and inquires at every door
until he finds you asleep midafternoon
as you so often are during the unmerciful
hours of your despair.

It comes to the monk in his cell.
It comes to the woman sweeping the street
with a birch broom, to the child
whose mother has passed out from drink.
It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing
a sock, to the pusher, to the basket maker,
and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots
in the night

It even comes to the boulder
in the perpetual shade
of pine barrens,
to rain falling on the open sea,
to the wineglass, weary of holding wine.”

~ Jane Kenyon

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Love alone

Posted in Abundance, Joy, Life, Time, tagged Compassion, happiness, Harmony, Kindness, Living, Love on February 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin