Happiness

1.      1.  The best way to get even is to forget...
        2.  Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death...
        3.  God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts...
        4.  Some folks wear their halos much too tight...
        5.  Some marriages are made in heaven, but they ALL have to be     maintained  maintained on on  earth...
        6.  Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up...
        7.  Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous. You will get knocked down  by the traffic from both ways.
        8.  Words are windows to the heart.
        9 .  A skeptic is a person who when he sees the handwriting on the  wall,  claims it's a forgery.
      10.  It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill just add a  little dirt.
      11.  A successful marriage isn't finding the right person, it's being the
    right person.
      12. The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its  ground.
      13. Too many people offer God prayers, with claw marks all over them.
      14. The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can't hold  it.
      15. To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then discover the  prisoner  was  you.
   

Attitude

   The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing  home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move  necessary.
    After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.   As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual  description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been  hung on her window. "I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.    "Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room ....just wait."   "That doesn't have anything to do with it," she replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not  doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my  mind. I already decided to love it ..."It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of  my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away, just for this time in  my life.   Old age is like a bank account ... you withdraw from what you've put in.   So,  my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank.  I am still depositing.

    Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
 1. Free your heart from hatred.
 2. Free your mind from worries.
 3. Live simply.
 4. Give more.
 5. Expect less.