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"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." --Anonymous

I am grateful for you and all the Charms that have brought such pleasure into my life. But I can't honestly say that I have had enough either. Perhaps this is the exception to the rule

Confucius.....I was complaining that I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet

Aesop.....Gratitude turns what we have into enough

Epicurus....Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what now have was once among the things you only hoped for.


My favourite is by Fra Giovanni Giocondo a 15th century Italian Friar amongst then many things he did with his life. He wrote the follow the Christmas of 1513

I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.
Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in darkness, could we but see. And to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver. But we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you.
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there. The gift is there and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Your joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it; that is all! But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country home.

Lovely quotes. Thank you!!

Being grateful every day of our lives, because we're being loved.



This very morning in my garden.

Doris_Dawn wrote:"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." --Anonymous

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MMMM i love you in that fitted leather jacket xxxxx

Ohhh, Thank you!!

heels1 wrote:

Doris_Dawn wrote:"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." --Anonymous

1920SC-Gratitude3.jpg

MMMM i love you in that fitted leather jacket xxxxx

These were great. Thanks for putting me in my place. What I have is enough. Children will make u see that.

SexyRicki
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We are loved, aren't we?
All you need is love!

SexyRicki wrote:These were great. Thanks for putting me in my place. What I have is enough. Children will make u see that.

SexyRicki
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"A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has." --Jacki Weaver

I love this entire post! I'd like to add one of my favorites.

DDDVIOAUS wrote:Confucius.....I was complaining that I had no shoes, until I met a man with no feet

Aesop.....Gratitude turns what we have into enough

Epicurus....Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what now have was once among the things you only hoped for.


My favourite is by Fra Giovanni Giocondo a 15th century Italian Friar amongst then many things he did with his life. He wrote the follow the Christmas of 1513

I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.
Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in darkness, could we but see. And to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver. But we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you.
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there. The gift is there and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Your joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it; that is all! But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country home.

Yes, excellent quotes and yes, communication makes us what we really are. Because we're not alone, never were.
Let not mention, on a side note, that sex is a form of communication, not the simplest one by far.

And one more true quote:

"You have so much more than you know."

"True listening is worship." --Heidegger

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
John F. Kennedy

Today is Fibonacci Day : 1,1,2,3, ... and so on and so forth

Doris_Dawn wrote:"A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has." --Jacki Weaver

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MY favorite one!!!

EmeraldmarieSC2 wrote:

Doris_Dawn wrote:"A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has." --Jacki Weaver

Lioness.jpg

MY favorite one!!!

So true

I love that quote and we should all live by it