Use your heart for love
Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your Heart for Love.
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Looking in the same direction
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love and appreciation for others
I cannot love and appreciate others if I cannot love and appreciate myself.
I’m not sure I agree with this quote. It seems to me that the very act of loving and appreciating others causes us to love and appreciate ourselves. Thoughts?
Go out and love others
If you know how it feels to be treated as unloved, go out and love others. The act of helping them will heal you.
via FB: Alice in Wonderland’s Teatray
Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts
Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Expectation is the root of all heartache
Expectations are the root of all heartache.
~ William Shakespeare
Something to think about…
Taking our friends and loved ones for granted, expecting perfection from them in every instance, greatly lessens the value we have in one another’s lives. Being hard on those closest to us may relieve some of the tension we feel about our own imperfections, but it creates another tension, one that may result in our friends leaving us behind.
We need the reminder, perhaps, that our friends are special to our growth. Our paths have crossed with reason. We complete a portion of the plan for one another’s lives. And for such gifts, we need to offer gratitude.
Each of us is endowed with many qualities, some more enhancing than others; it is our hope, surely, that our lesser qualities will be ignored. We must do likewise for our friends. We can focus on the good, and it will flourish — in them, in ourselves, in all situations. A positive attitude nurtures everyone. Let us look for the good, and in time, it is all that will catch our attention.
Source (modified): Each Day a New Beginning | Hazelden Meditations
Whatever happened to Jenny and Shirley?
In 2000, The Urban Elephant brought viewers the touching story of Shirley and Jenny, two crippled elephants reunited at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee after a 22-year separation. The bonding was immediate, intense and unforgettable between the two former circus elephants. But long after the cameras were turned off, the wondrous moments would continue….(click through to PBS to read more)
Loving and giving
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The basics of life
I return to the basics of life: forgiveness, courage, gratitude, love, and humor.
Love is patient
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Chapter 13 of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, attributed to Paul the apostle, covers the subject of love, principally the love that people should have for one another:
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
You are my sunshine
Dedicated to my children, who have been and always will be the light of my life.
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