Living the Fairytale Life

HaPpY Life

2009-11-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

Two rules for a Long and Happy Life:

Don't sweat the small stuff
It's ALL small stuff!

--Anonymous

Service

2009-11-07T08:14:00.001-07:00

"When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart."
--Heber J. Grant

Charity

2009-11-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

"Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet.

Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other."
--Marvin J. Ashton

JOY of living

2009-11-05T08:18:00.001-07:00

"Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one’s self of the real joy of living."
--David O. McKay

faith & hope

2009-11-04T08:15:00.001-07:00

" If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope."
--Jacques Cousteau

True Love

2009-11-03T17:00:00.001-07:00

"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."

--Dr. Seuss

Faith fuels Hope

2009-11-03T10:25:00.001-07:00

"Faith fuels hope... As it flows freely, our perspective changes; our vision becomes clearer. We begin to look for the best, not the worst, in life and in others. We gain a deeper sense of life's purpose and meaning. Despair gives way to joy."
David S. Baxter

2009-02-18T15:22:00.002-07:00

I sit here and watch

You grow day by day

And I often wonder

The words that I’ll say

What tidbits of wisdom

Will I impart

Will I remember

To share my heart

I plan to be there

To teach you to drive

To help you reach for

The goals that you strive

The day that you marry

I want to be there

To witness the joy

Of the love that you share

But until that day comes

I hope that you know

How much you are loved

Each day as you grow.

--By Darla Foster

2008-12-17T11:00:00.002-07:00

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

--Helen Keller

2008-12-16T09:35:00.000-07:00

"How wonderful a thing is a child."

--Gordon B. Hinckley

2008-12-15T18:58:00.005-07:00

Moving up a Notch

Try to move up a notch,

As we approach each day.

Things need not be perfect,

Asking for help, as we pray.

Perfect 10’s are hard to come by,

Could be counted on one hand.

Taking charge of our own life,

Making forward motion a demand.

Remember to move from 5 to 6,

Can make a difference in life.

It’s not the mighty jumps,

That helps manage our strife.

It’s the important little baby steps,

Which teaches us, how to grow.

Moving up just one small notch,

Will help us more, than we know.

Just think of the great days,

When we make it to an eight.

Starting with a six or seven,

Ending the day without debate.

So lets try to move each day.

Up just one notch or two.

Knowing we have made progress,

Small amounts of effort,

changes our view.

--Tom Baker

2008-12-15T12:35:00.001-07:00

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize that they were the big things.

2008-09-17T10:38:00.004-06:00

"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you." -Samuel Johnston

2008-09-17T10:34:00.002-06:00

Broken Wings “Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” ~Henry Miller

2008-09-11T14:29:00.001-06:00

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do.

- Helen Keller