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Success, Beauty, & and Learning Experiences
“Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.” –James Michener (Source: tinybuddha) Quotos Sources: Success: I Stop for suffering shared Get Happy Zone’s photo Beautiful: Home … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Heart, Joy & Happiness, Photos That Touched Me, Quotes I Love, Success
Tagged beautiful, beauty, heart, home, I Stop For Suffering, James Michener, smile, tears, tinybuddha
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Collateral Compassion and Kindness
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, “Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.” And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, “Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.” … Continue reading
Posted in Compassion, Kindness, Love, My Beliefs, Quotes I Love, Words or Quotes I Believe I Coined but please let me know if you heard them earlier elsewhere
Tagged beautiful, collateral compassion, collateral kindness, compassion, disappointment, hate, Kahlil Gibran, kindness, Life, self, selfish, unbeautiful, understanding, wordsmith.org, world
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“A Vehicle for Awakening”
“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.” –Buddha (Source: Samuel “Gentoku” McCree via tinybuddha @ http://tinybuddha.com/blog/5-powerful-things-to-do-for-yourself-when-youre-sick/) “A vehicle for awakening!” Wow, what a wise and beautiful way to view our bodies. Russ
Posted in Health, Observations, Quotes I Love
Tagged awakening, beautiful, bodies, body, Buddha, health, Samuel "Gentoku" McCree, Samuel McCree, sick, tinybuddha, vehicle, wise
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People and Trash Making Beautiful Music Together
Someone is taking trash and making it into musical instruments that poor children are using to play beautiful music together. Another example where creative and caring people are creating solutions that are making the world a better place for everyone. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Making the World a Better Place, Music
Tagged beautiful, Caring, kindness, making the world a better place, music, musical, musical instruments, people, trash
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The World Can Be
I just saw this saying on Facebook: “The world can be amazing when you’re slightly strange.” I agree. And I and know from personal experience that the world can be very entertaining when you are downright weird! ;-D! And very … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Kindness, Quotes I Love
Tagged beautiful, entertaining, experience, experiencing, Facebook, kindness, nature, strange, wierd
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A Beautiful Bouquet
“Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower.” –John Harrison Source: Tiny Buddha This sounds to me like a good recipe for turning life into a beautiful bouquet. Russ
Posted in Joy & Happiness, LIfe Lessons, Poetry I Wrote, Quotes I Love
Tagged beautiful, bouquet, flower, hapiness, John Harrigan, Life, recipe, seed, Tiny Buddha, tinybuddha
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The Life I’ve Needed To Live
“There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you. Just reach deep into yourself!” ~Unknown I saw the above quote at http://tinybuddha.com/blog/the-message-your-higher-self-wants-you-to-hear/ That concept, combined with the others below have freed me to live … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Following Your Passion, Gratitude, Growth/Learning, Joy & Happiness, Quotes I Love
Tagged beautiful, creative, deep, free, freed, friends, fun, good, hear, heart, High, higher, kind, knowing, Life, living, Love, loved ones, loving, people, self, sharing, stars, support, supportive, Tiny Buddha, understanding, voice, within, won, yourself
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A Beautiful Tapestry
“An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle but it will never break. May you be open to each thread that comes into your life ~ … Continue reading
The gift that keeps on giving {beautiful blogger award}
Today this blog was honored to have been nominated for the Beautiful Blogger Award from reader and fellow blogger, Jolyn of The Jolyn Project fame. The Jolyn Project is dedicated to anyone who wishes to change the world for the … Continue reading
Posted in Abundance, Awards: Sharing The Love, Creativity, Generosity, Gratitude, Inspiring, LIfe Lessons, Making the World a Better Place, Observations, Optimism, Praise, Unexpected Pleasures
Tagged award, beautiful, Beautiful Blogger Award, Bella and Di Di, dogs, fun, funny, give yourself away, GYA, inspiring, Jolyn, kind, kind-hearted, kindness, lift while climbing, Love, loving, Paws to Talk, Shian, standard poodles, Touching
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