"What's the use of worrying?

It never was worth while,

So pack up your troubles in your old kit

bag,And

smile, smile, smile.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

If you can't sleep,

then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying.

It's the worry that gets you,

not the lack of sleep.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man,

even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it....

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things,

and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

happy thanksgiving

So once in every year we throngUpon a day apart,To praise the Lord with feast and songIn thankfulness of heart.

Our rural ancestors,

with little blest,

Patient of labour when the end was rest,

Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,

With feasts, and off'rings,

and a thankful strain.

prosperity

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. , universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. IslandAdversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), SatiresProsperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

attitudes

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Wherever you go,

no matter what the weather,

always bring your own sunshine.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

i'm sorry

There's one sad truth in life I've foundWhile journeying east and west -

The only folks we really woundAre those we love the best.

We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,

And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

An apology is the superglue of life.

It can repair just about anything.

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

blessings

A sunbeam to warm you,A moonbeam to charm you,

A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.~

BlessingMay you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or,

may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

May the sun shine, all day long,everything go right, and nothing wrong.

May those you love bring love back to you,and may all the wishes you wish come true!

May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you.

how come true????????.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.

Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

I tell you this, and I tell you plain:What you have done, you will do again;You will bite your tongue, careful or not,Upon the already-bitten spot.

new moon

Speak of the devil and the devil shall appear.Jacob Black, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.138
Many of the words they used were unfamiliar to me, and I figured I’d have to have a Y chromosome to really understand the excitement.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.139
I was enjoying myself—how strange.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.140
I’m bankrolling this party. You just have to supply the labor and expertise.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.140
If either of you set so much as one toe on my land tomorrow…Jacob Black, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.141
I was laughing, actually laughing, and there wasn’t even anyone watching. I felt so weightless that I laughed again, just make the feeling last longer.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.141
I had to reach so high to slap his hand that he laughed.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.144
So where to, Mr. Goodwrench?Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.144
Jacob was simply a perpetually happy person, and he carried that happiness with him like an aura, sharing it with whoever was near him. Like an earthbound sun, whenever someone was within his gravitational pull, Jacob warmed them. It was natural, a part of who he was. No wonder I was so eager to see him.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.145
Okay, but if you’re going to get picky like that, you have to average in size, too. You’re so small, I’ll have to knock ten years off your total.Jacob Black, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.146
It’s not my fault you’re a freak.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.147
By the time we got back to La Push, I was twenty-three and he was thirty—he was definitely weighting skills in his favor.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.147
I still wanted to cheat. It was senseless, and I really didn’t care. I was going to be as reckless as I could possibly manage in Forks. I would not be the only keeper of an empty contract. Getting to spend time with Jacob was just a much bigger perk than I’d expected.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.147
While he worked, he seemed almost graceful. Unlike when he was on his feet; there, his height and big feet made him nearly as dangerous as I was.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.148
The laughter did not go deep; it was light and superficial, but still nice. I was sure he wouldn’t notice the faint hint of hysteria. I wasn’t used to laughing, and it felt right and also very wrong at the same time.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.148
The warmth of Jacob’s presence was fading and, in its absence, the anxiety grew stronger.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.150
I remembered the first day I’d come to Forks High School—how desperately I’d wished that I could turn gray, fade into the wet concrete of the sidewalk like an oversized chameleon. It seemed I was getting that wish answered, a year late.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.152
The figure of speech cold shoulder seemed to have some literal truth to it.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.153
I was beginning to get annoyed with myself. I might as well have been packed in Styrofoam peanuts through the last semester.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.153
Had all the people she was habitually nasty to caught her behind the gym and scalped her?Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.154
She looked at me with concern, but not the offensive, maybe-she’s-lost-it kind.Bella Swan, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.157
Oh, joy. Bella’s back.Lauren Mallory, New Moon, Chapter 6, p.158