#1 – A New Year
A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.
Unknown
#2 – The End and the Beginning
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
T.S. Eliot
#3 – Room By Room
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives . . . not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman
#4 - Look Inside
#5 – Resolve to Keep Happy
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
#6 – Be at Peace
#7 – How to Live
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most loves
Who thinks most – feels the noblest – acts the best.
Philip James Baile
#8- Do You Have Any Idea?
From the TUT Adventures Club
#9 – A New Book
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
#10 – I Know Something Good About You
Wouldn’t this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say -
“I know something good about you!”
And treat us just that way?
Wouldn’t it be fine and dandy
If each handclasp, fond and true,
Carried with it this assurance -
“I know something good about you!’
Wouldn’t life be lots more happy
If the good that’s in us all
Were the only thing about us
That folks bothered to recall?
Wouldn’t life be lots more happy
If we praised the good we see?
For there’s such a lot of goodness
In the worst of you and me!
Wouldn’t it be nice to practice
That fine way of thinking, too?
You know something good about me;
I know something good about you.
Author unknown
#11 – Change Your Programming
#12 – Becoming
There is no such thing as a “finished” person; whatever your circumstances are, it is your challenge to keep asking yourself the tough question that will move you forward in your life. What I’ve discovered is that joy isn’t waiting on the other side of that process; joy is that process . . . The greatest joy lies not in simply being but in becoming.
Oprah
May 2013 bring you abundant joy!
With much gratitude,
Linnell
