Doris_Dawn wrote:"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." --Anonymous
heels1 wrote:Doris_Dawn wrote:"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." --Anonymous
MMMM i love you in that fitted leather jacket xxxxx
SexyRicki wrote:These were great. Thanks for putting me in my place. What I have is enough. Children will make u see that.
SexyRicki
SC1
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.
Doris_Dawn wrote:"A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has." --Jacki Weaver
EmeraldmarieSC2 wrote:Doris_Dawn wrote:"A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has." --Jacki Weaver
MY favorite one!!!
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests