WORDS TO THE WISE

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You can't eat happiness

You can't buy it. You can't wear it. You can't drive it, or drink it, or sell

it, or steal it. You can't lock it away. You can't negotiate for it. You can't

win it, you can't marry it, you can't inherit it, you can't cheat it. You can't

smoke it, or inject it, or rent it or borrow it. You can't campaign for it or

beg for it, or talk other people into giving you theirs. You can live happiness.

You can create it. You can be it. You can give it to others. You can enjoy it.

You can share it. You can claim it. You can have as much as you wish. You can

enjoy it as much as you want, at any time, under any circumstance. You can work

with it, play with it, worship, travel, eat, and sleep with it. Happiness is

yours to live and yours to give, if only you will. It comes from the inside, and

the best way to experience it is to get it flowing out. Forget about trying and

striving to get happy. Just decide to be happy, and happiness is yours.

Ralph Marston

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Give Up

Give up complaining . . . focus on gratitude. Give up pessimism . . . become an

optimist. Give up harsh judgements . . . think kind thoughts. Give up worry . .

.. trust divine providence. Give up discouragement . . . be full of hope. Give up

bitterness . . . turn to forgiveness. Give up hatred . . . return good for evil.

Give up negativism . . . be positive. Give up anger . . . practice patience.

Give up pettiness . . . put on maturity. Give up gloom. . . enjoy the beauty

that is all around you. Give up gossiping . . . control your tongue. Give up

giving up . . . hang in there!

~ " We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a

little of each other everywhere. " ~

~ " If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the

entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. "