Honor Love

"The

reason

why all men

honor love

is because

it looks up,

and not down;

aspires

and

not despairs."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Look up into the eyes of the beloved and see the gleam

of happiness that permeates the soul.

Look up to and elevate those who think of others, share

the love and understand that God does not make any junk.

Honor is your true worth and stature based on the

harmony of your actions.

Your honor is the honest and true feelings that

establish one's personal dignity and character.

Today, be honorable, aspire to be loved by others the

way your Higher Power loves you when you do His will.

Happiness is honoring love.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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The Possible

"The

Possible's

slow

fuse

is lit

By

the

Imagination."

~ Emily Dickinson


If it has a name that means some body has

done that or thought of that.

If it doesn't have a name, and it is something that

promotes kindness and love, helps people become

more patient and tolerant, helps to make this world

a better place, imagine that.

Today, create the thought, the word, the name

that will signal the beginning of world peace.

Today, let you imagination run rampant,

become the person God wants you to be.

Happiness is knowing that anything is possible.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Hope

"Today is not

yesterday:

we ourselves

change;

how can our

works and

thoughts,

if they are

always to be the fittest, continue always the same?

Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful;

and if memory have its force and worth,

so also has hope." ~ Thomas Carlyle


The only constant in God's world is that things will change.

What you hope for, what you work for, what you live for,

even your understanding of your Higher Power, will change.

Grow wise, accept, have gratitude, embrace the challenge

of the change and know that God will not bring to you

anything that He will not see you through.

Always remember that the joy is in the journey,

if you are happy now you will be happy

when you reach your destination.

Happiness is hope that things will change.

Happiness is helping someon help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Cheap

"Real

happiness

is cheap

enough,

yet

how dearly

we pay

for its

counterfeit."


~ Hosea Ballou


Happiness is an attitude that dwells within your soul.

People, who you may rely upon to give you happiness

may not always be there when you need them.

Places, that you may depend upon to give you happiness

will change tomorrow because God's world is always changing.

Things, that you think will make you happy will disappear,

become old and broken, become obsolete, and eventually

will be throw out by the children.

Today, be cheap, have a happy soul.

Today, don't pay for the counterfeit,

rely on God to give you what you need.

Today, be grateful, and if you look closely enough

you will discover that God has already given you

everything you need to be happy.

Happiness is not paying for the counterfeit.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Fear

"Fear

is

pain

arising

from

the

anticipation

of

evil." ~ Aristotle


Evil, calamity, disaster, hurt feelings or a stubbed toe

will cause the pain, the fear is how you handle it.

Fear not, let go and let God.

Fear less, learn to avoid the evil, the mean people,

the places where disaster is pending, and above all

watch where you are walking.

Fear is not knowing.

If you do not know, ask a friend, reach out for help,

look for opinions from both sides of the fence and

seek to put balance in your life.

Do not try to hide from fear by ritual or worship,

but allow your soul to bask in the Light of Knowing,

a loving Higher Power who will teach you faith.

Happiness is giving your fears to God.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Retribution

"An

eye

for

an

eye

makes

the

whole

world

blind." ~ Mahatma Gandhi



Retribution is payment for both good and bad,

but what about the accidents?

Could the accident have been prevented or was the

action premeditated??

People, places and things in your life will be better

if you seek the better and the accidents will occur

less frequently.

Keep kindness and love in your heart, practice patience

and tolerance and you will not have as many accidents.

It is no accident when you are doing the will of your

loving Higher Power, the God of your understanding.

Today, be not judge and jury, ask your Higher Power

to show you how love can be the best retribution.

Happiness is no accident and requires no retribution.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss





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ME

"Whoever

degrades

another

degrades me,

And

whatevere

is done

or said

returns

at last to me." ~Walt Whitman


God will not let you get away with anything that is not kind,

loving, patient and tolerant and the best that you can be.

Guilt, shame and remorse are the rewards for being mean,

selfish, self-centered, grandiose and arrogant because in

the end it is always just between you and God.

Life is the mirror and the people, places and things that you

choose to surround yourself with will reflect your true heart.

Today, no matter where you go, no matter who you go with,

let your mirror be bright and shiny and a good reflection

of the Great Creator who made us all.

Happiness is knowing that what comes back to ME is God sent.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Sin

"Sin

is too

stupid

to see

beyond

itself."


Alfred Lord Tennyson


Selfish, self-centered, arrogant, grandiose,

it is all about me, it is all sin.

It is a sin to tell a lie.

HOW it works is to be;

Honest, Open-minded and Willing,

to do the next right thing, to do the will

of a loving God of your understanding,

and to share self with others.

Today, don't be stupid, be kind, be loving,

be patient and tolerant and be the person

God wants you to be.

Happiness is being free from sin.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Action Not Words

"Most men

make little

use of their

speech than

to give

evidence

against their

own understanding." ~ George Savile


Just keep talking and you will eventually tell me

how little you know.

Today, it is the actions, not the words, that will

show God and His world where your heart is.

Be kind, hold the door open, and if you need words,

please and thank you will suffice.

Be loving, smiles and hugs work well, and if words are

needed, tell someone that God loves them and so do you.

Be patient and tolerant, bite your tongue, no toe tapping,

no big sighs, just words of encouragement to get on with

doing the will of your loving Higher Power.

Be the person God wants you to be, a good example,

all action and very few words.

Need a word, can't find the right expression, pray,

and allow the Light of the Universe to guide you.

Happiness is saying the next right thing.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




PS..unless your words are in a book that comes from the heart..
Thank you, Betsy Otter Thompson, "Walking Through Illusion."
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Clockmaker

"I

cannot

imagine

how the

clockwork

of the

universe

can exist

without

a clockmaker." ~ Voltaire


There is a God today, and it is not you.

Don't worry, be happy, take, make, do whatever

you can to have this life be the best there ever was.

The only thing standing between having a great day

and having a lousy day is your attitude.

People, places and things will try to waste your time,

God will give you the chances, the choices are yours.

Today, be God's Timex, take the beating

and just keep on ticking.

Today, forgive and forget, get on with your life,

make this a day in which your efforts will make

the Clockmakers world hum like Rolex.

Today, avoid the cuckoo, unless you enjoy having

God pull your chains.

Remember, kindness and love are great time keepers.

Happiness is being on time to do God's will.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss





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Simplicities

"We

struggle

with the

complexities

and

avoid

the simplicities." ~ Norman Vincent Peale


Simple is I.

I love, I need and God will provide.

Complex is we.

Is that what we, us, they, want or need ?

Worry, stress, unrealistic expectations, fear,

and all of the negative thoughts and feelings

could drive a insane person to drink.

When is enough, enough??

Keep it simple; when I think of others and I do,

from a kind and loving heart, what I and my God

have the chance to do, things are done successfully.

Sanity is simplicity.

Happiness is knowing the simplicities of success.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Charity

"Flatter

not thyself

in thy

faith in God

if thou hast

not charity

for thy

neighbor." ~ Francis Quarles


Faith without action is dead.

God has made this world reciprocal:

you give, you get;

you get and you share what you get,

and you will receive more.

Good alone is selfish, self-centered, smug,

complacent, grandiose, self-flattering and mean.

Have faith, God was wise to make us feel better

only by sharing the good.


Charity begins at home, a good place to practice, but

it lives on in the works that do the will of a loving God,

a Higher Power of your understanding, your acts of

random kindness and unconditional love.

Happiness is knowing that charity is from the heart.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

Me and the Boss




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Mass Motivated

"Am I

motivated

by what

I

really want

out of life --

or am

I

mass-motivated?"

~ Earl Nightingale


Are you trying to keep up with the Joneses ??

Do you believe those really stupid advertisements

you are bombarded with daily ??

Do you believe what your family and friends tell you

is the whole truth and nothing but the truth ??

Do you believe that what the teacher, the preacher,

the baker, the candlestick maker or the Indian chief,

told you was the last word from God ???

Don't believe.

Today, KNOW in your heart that you are being motivated

by the needs, not the wants, of doing the will of your

Higher Power, the loving God of your understanding.

Know that you are going to leave this earth with exactly

what you had when you arrived.

Happiness is being motivated by true and pure love.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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A First-Rate Mind

"The
third-rate
mind
is only happy
when it is
thinking with
the majority.

The
second-rate
mind
is only happy
when it is
thinking with
the minority.

The
first-rate mind
is only happy
when it is thinking." ~ A.A.Milne


God made you unique, think unique.

Think kind, your own variation.

Think loving, your own formula.

Think patient and tolerant, take a deep breath, relax,

be the person God wants you to be.

If your brain is on backwards, think backwards first.

Thinking is never a burden to the first-rate mind

that thinks of others before self.

Think gratitude, you are not a majority of one, and you

are never a minority in the eyes of your Higher Power.

Happiness is a having first-rate mind.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Pessimist/Optimist

"Don't ever

become

a pessimist...

a pessimist

is correct

more often

than an

optimist,

but an optimist

has more fun,

and neither can stop the march of events." ~ Robert A. Heinlein


Today, have fun, know that God's will is kindness, love

and a march of events that will make every soul better

for God having put us on this Earth.

Today, a wish for better, a hope for better, a prayer for

the better will only become better if you work for better.

Work at smiling, hugging, speaking optimistic words

and being the happy person God wants you to be.

Today, have balance in your life, good/evil, real/fantasy,

yin/yang, darkness/light, chocolate/vanilla, and of course

pessimist/optimist.

Happiness is having a Higher Power that is good, real,

and optimistic.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss





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Patience

"We cannot,

in a moment,

get rid of

habits

of a lifetime."

Mahatma Gandhi




Patience begins at home.

God, family, friends, neighbors, fellow travelers,

church, synagogue, temple, wat, mosque, tribe, or

whatever meeting you may attend, your patience

must always begin with Self.

What disturbs us about others is usually what we find

wrong in ourselves; grandiose, arrogant, liar, cheater

thief, selfish, self-centered, angry, mean and insensitive

to the needs of others.

Your list is yours to deal with.

Today, take a deep breath and repeat after me:

"Let God's will be done and what is the lesson I can learn

from this encounter??"

Take what you need and leave the rest.

Keep coming back, the message tomorrow may be the one

you were waiting for.

Remember, God answers all prayers, in His time.

Happiness is having the patience to await God's answer.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Successful Consequences

"Success

is a

consequence

and

must not

be

a goal."

~ Gustave Flaubert


Keep your expectations realistic.

The goal is to enjoy the journey, and if

you do the will of your loving Higher Power,

the God of your understanding,

success will always be the consequence.

Please do not try to run the world today,

let go and let God,

look for the chances that God will give you,

a chance to show a kindness,

a chance to share the love,

a chance to be patient and tolerant,

a chance to be the person God wants you to be,

and make sure your choices are from a body,

mind and soul that is willing to go to any length

to do the next right thing.

Today, know that success is an opinion,

and it is best if you keep yours to yourself.

Happiness is having a goal of doing God's will

knowing that success will always be the reward.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Don"t Wait

“How

wonderful

it is that

nobody

need wait

a single

moment

before starting

to improve the world.” ~Anne Frank


Suggestion, start with a prayer, knowing that following

the will of a Higher Power can give a better purpose

to the improvements you wish to share.

Suggestion, start inside, because when the attitude of gratitude

starts rolling the altitude of the giving soars higher and higher.

Suggestion, start small, a smile and a kind word can

become an avalanche of wonderful happiness that will spread

like wildfires.

Suggestion, don't wait.

Happiness is not waiting to start the improvement.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Strength and Courage

"To love

someone deeply

gives you

strength.

Being loved by

someone deeply

gives you

courage."

~ Lao-Tzu


To love and be loved is very easy

when there are no expectations.

Self love, family love, friends love, people love, pets love,

God love, they all matter and when you put them all

together they make for a very happy, joyous and free life.

Ask your Higher Power to give you the guidance

to find the balance in your love

Do not love only the healthy and happy, ask God for the

strength to have compassion for the sick and suffering,

learn to know tough love.

Do not seek to have everyone love you,

have the courage to accept rejection.

Happiness is the strength and courage to love and be loved.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Gentle

"I think

we prepare

people

for violence,

and I think

it is just as

important

we prepare people

for the definition of being gentle." ~ Bob Keeshan


The definition of gentle is doing the will of a loving Higher Power.

It is good to know that the Devil lives at the bottom of the abyss,

he lurks in the shadows, he occupies the heart of mean and

angry people, however, it is important to impart that knowledge

but leave your legacy as knowing how to walk in the Light.

Following the path of God will steer you clear of the abyss,

keep you in the Light, and lead you to gentle friends who have

kind and loving hearts.

Smiles are gentle.

Hugs should be gentle.

Kind words and gifts from the soul are gentle.

Happiness is knowing the definition of being gentle.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss


..
Robert James Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)

Better know from 1955 to 1984 as Captain Kangaroo




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The Right Way

"The hell

to be endured

hereafter,

of which

theology tells,

is no worse than

the hell we make

for ourselves

in this world

by habitually fashioning

our characters in the wrong way." ~ William James


Want Heaven? , fashion your character in a manner that is

the right way, the way that does the will of a loving God.

Seek through self examination, prayer and meditation to

improve your conscious contact with the Higher Power

of your understanding and you will intuitively know

how to handle life on God's terms.

Prayer is a conversation, from the heart, and meditation

is letting you soul listen for the answers to your prayers.

If your prayer is a simple "thank you",

God will answer with " you are welcomed,

please have Heaven here on Earth

and enjoy My most bountiful grace and blessings."

Happiness is knowing the right way is God's way.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss





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Cry Me A River

"There
is a
sacredness
in tears.
They are
not the mark
of weakness,
but of power.
They speak
more
eloquently
than
ten thousand
tongues.
They are the
messengers
of overwhelming grief,
of deep contrition,
and of unspeakable love." ~ Washington Irving


Today, let it all hang out, shower others with kindness,

share a downpouring of love, be emotional and display the

feelings that will make this a day for which you will have

no regrets.

Tomorrow may be to late to show a kindness.

Tomorrow may be to late to say I love you.

Tomorrow may be to late to apologize for being a

person who is selfish and self-centered, impatient

and intolerant, mean, nasty and a basic pain in the neck.

Do it today and do it from the heart, with no selfish motives.

Today, be the person your Higher Power expects you to be.

Happiness is being drenched by tears of joy.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss





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Size Matters

"If a

small thing

has the

power

to make

you angry,

does that not

indicate

something

about your size?" ~ Sydney J. Harris


How big a person are you ?

We are not talking tall, wide or thick, we are discussing

the size of your heart, your mind and your soul.

Is your heart big enough to hold a basket full of kindness ?

Is your mind large enough to comprehend a bushel of love ?

Is you soul spacious enough to encompass a Universe that

a Higher Power made for all of His creation to share ?

Think big, do big, and be big in the eyes of the God of your

understanding, the Light of All Being, the Spirit of Love.

Today, no matter how big you think you are, always rember the

little guy and respect that God gave him a very important job,

the task of keeping you honest, humble and in your place.

Today, know that God made everyone a different size and

it is your responsibility to do your biggest to do God's will.

Happiness is being the size God wants you to be.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss





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Necessary Defects

"Certain

defects

are

necessary

for

the

existence

of

individuality."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


What you may consider a defect, a quirk, a nuance of character,

an oddity, a style, a twitch or a tick others might see as a

normal and natural way of being just another soul.

Thank God we are all different, no one can imagine how boring

this world would be if we all met the same standards and

we all thought alike.

Boring might be OK, but only if the standards and thoughts

are all good.

Be an individual, be different, but make sure your standards

and thoughts meet the will of a loving Higher Power.

Today, be uniquely kind, love to excess, and find a

beneficial defect that is your individual way of making

this world a better place.

Happiness is being a good one of a kind.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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God's Intentions

"To

love

someone

means

to see

him

as God

intended him."

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky


Love everyone.

The Latin language did it right when they had

three separate words for love; amo, amas, amat,

I love, you love, they love.

I love my soul mate, that one special person in my life

who is my better half, the person who completes me,

the person who walks beside me as we seek to do God's will.

You love family and friends, those people who share

a common blood bond, a spirit of togetherness,

a desire to help each other do the will of their Higher Power.

They love everyone, a love for God's world just as it is,

to be shared, improved and delivered to the next generation

as a legacy of love.

Do not antagonize yourself today, harbor no hateful thoughts,

do not entertain jealousy or envy, leave your false pride at

home, instead learn to practice your many types of love,

and know that God intended for everyone to love and be loved.

Happiness is loving as God intended.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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See

"The eye

with which

I see God

is the

same eye

with which

God sees me."

~ Meister Eckhart




If I see God as love, God will see the love in me.

If is see God as kindness, God will see the kindness in me.

If I see that God is patient and tolerant, God will

see the patience and tolerance in me.

God will see my thoughts, my words and my actions

as soon as I see them.

If I see the will of my loving Higher Power as a desire

to return to all of His creation all that His grace has given me,

He will give me more than I could ever want or need.

Be kind, be loving, be patient and tolerant, be the person God

wants you to be and see how happy, joyous and free life can be.

Happiness is being able to see God's will.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Things

"The

most

important

things

in life

aren't

things."

~ Anthony D'Angelo



God, love, kindness, listening and caring head the

list of most important parts of a wondeful life,

a soul that that does worry about things.

God will take care of things, you just need to

take care of your attitude.

If you attitude is good and in the right place,

God's grace will take care of you.

Body, mind and soul, seek the guidance of a Higher Power

to do the next right thing, and keep the balance in you life

in accordance to the will of the Light of All Being.

Good things come to those who know how to GIVE

kindness and love, the most important parts of life.

Happiness is knowing what is important in life.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Are You Lying ?

"Remember

that it is

not enough

to abstain

from lying

by word

of mouth;

for the

worst lies

are often conveyed

by a false look, smile, or act."

~ Abraham Cahan


Lying is the lazy souls attempt to avoid doing the will of God.

Lying always harms yourself much more than it hurts others.

The Devil designed false looks, crooked smiles and evil acts

to justify the ways of the lazy liar.

Today, be truthful, say the right words, look the part, convey

the part, and be the part that is happy, joyous and free.

Today, speak from a loving heart, be truthful without being

mean, sarcastic or ugly.

Today, love God as He loves you, no lying.

Happiness is always telling the truth; body, mind and soul.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Heart Felt

“A man

sees

in the

world

what he

carries

in his

heart.”

~ Johann Von Goethe


The body changes, in spite of ourselves.

The mind is in constant motion and the word

change does not adequately describe what

we were thinking about just a millisecond ago.

The heart however, can only be changed when the feelings

are in tune with the soul, the will of your Higher Power.

Today, accept the changes you see in God's world,

and make sure you adjust the feelings in your heart

to agree with God's will.

Today, keep your body healthy, your mind clean and let

your heart see and feel all of the kindness and love that

God has put into His world.

Happiness is feeling love in your heart.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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Suspicion

"Suspicion

is far more

to be wrong

than right;

more often

unjust

than just.

It is no friend

to virtue,

and always

an enemy to happiness." ~ Hosea Ballou


I suspect that you already know that you are suspect.

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear,

and you will probably be closer to the truth

than you could ever suppose.

Today, do not beat about the bush,

go straight for the jugular, improve your aim,

hit the nail on the head and seek out the truth

before your suppositions become an ugly tangled

web of half truths and misinformation.

Today, hang with the winners, the kind, the loving,

the patient and tolerant, the people who strive

to do the will of their Higher Power, and you will be

above suspicion.

Happiness is faith in a God who is above suspicion.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.

ME and the Boss




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