You are given a daily invitation
to fill your heart with all the
smiles it can possibly hold.
-Douglas Pagels
If you can walk, you can dance.
If you can talk, you can sing.
-Zimbabwe Proverb
Count your blessings, not your troubles.
You’ll make it through whatever comes along.
Within you are so many answers.
Understand, have courage, be strong.
-Douglas Pagels
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius
You don’t have to be the one responsible for making
everything work. Believe me. The big things are already
taken care of: the sin will rise in the morning, the stars
will come out at night, and – if you work it right-
a child, someone you love, or a dear, close friend will share
a special smile with you – and make everything wrong-
right again.
-Douglas Pagels
There are only two things in the world to worry
over: the things you can control, and the things
you can’t control. Fix the first, forget the second.
-Anonymous
When you must, you can.
-Jewish Proverb
The sunrise never failed us yet.
-Celia Thaxter
Whether you’re eighteen or eighty, I encourage you to
have the courage to find the magic in this day. Go out
of your way to appreciate the deserving things here before
you: people who matter, places that will inevitably change,
and circumstances that get rearranged all too easily.
Remember that there’s more to appreciate in thins moment
than we realize. Believe me: Years form now, the truth of
this will shine, And one of your sincere regrets will be
not knowing how good you had it…at the time.
-Douglas Pagels
Things turn out best for the people who
make the best of the way things turn out.
-Anonymous
You’re an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that;
don’t let your unigueness make you shy. Don’t be someone other
than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.
-Douglas Pagel
It is never too late
to be what you
might have been.
-George Eliot
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
-Saadi
We can bring so many blessings into our lives just by
realizing that it is never too late. Before you turn
the page on this day, make a pact with yourself to
untie the ribbons and open the gifts we are given in
this life. Do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.
Have health and hope and happiness! Live a full life
on this earth, understand your real worth, and wish
on all your stars.
And don’t ever forget, for even a day,
how very special you are.
-Douglas Pagels
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