"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured......♥ ♥ ♥ ...







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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
                       
“— Henry Ward Beecher

To a happy person, the formula for happiness is quite simple: Regardless of what happened early this morning, last week, or last year - or what may happen later this evening, tomorrow, or three years from now - now is where happiness lies.

     “— Richard Carlson

When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realise that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.



“— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John


be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire. if you did, what would there be to look forward to?


be thankful when you don’t know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn.


be thankful for the difficult times. during those times you grow.


be thankful for your limitations, because they give you opportunities for improvement.


be thankful for your mistakes. they will teach you valuable lessons.


be thankful when you’re tired and weary, because it means you’ve made a difference.


it’s easy to be thankful for the good things.


a life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.


find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.

1. Realize your own worth. Avoid comparing yourself with others. Each of us is special, because we are different one from the other.





2. Set your own goals based on what is important to you, not what others think is important. Only you know what is best for you.




3. Treasure the things that are closest to your heart. Cherish them as you would your life; without them life is meaningless.




4. Live your life one day at a time, in the present, each day to its fullest. Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future.




5. Be relentless when you have something to offer; never give up. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.




6. Embrace risk; don’t be afraid. We learn how to be brave by taking chances.




7. Love deeply, freely, and with all your heart. The quickest way to receive love is to give love; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; the best way to keep love is to give it wings.




8. Live your dreams. To be without dreams is to be without hope; to be without hope is to be without purpose.




9. Slow down. Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured, each and every step of the way.



10. Surrender to your destiny; have faith that it will unfold as it should. Choose to be happy, at peace and one with the universe.

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Standing for what you believe in regardless of the odds against you, and the pressure that tears at your resistance



…is Courage.





Keeping a smile on your face when inside you feel like dying, for the sake of supporting others


…is Strength.






Stopping at nothing and doing what’s in your heart that you know is right

…is Determination.






Doing more than is expected, to make another’s life a little more bearable, without uttering a single complaint


…is Compassion.





Helping a friend in need, no matter the time or effort, to the best of your ability


…is Loyalty.






Holding your head high and being the best you know you can be when life seems to fall apart at your feet,

…is Fortitude.


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