Fairy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music
 
 
 
 
Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

Mantra from the Dalai Lama

 
( A short Buddhist outlook on life.)


 

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music
 
It Must Have Been Love
 
 
 
Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music
 
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions. Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Spend some time alone every day.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

 

A loving atmosphere in your home is the for your life.

In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Be gentle with the earth.

Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

 

 

 

 

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music
 
 

 

 

There the penitents took off their shoes

And walked barefoot the remaining mile.
 
 

-- Robert Lowell
 
 

 

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music


Some people have to have pain. 

If dirt doesn't fall on their heads from the sky, they sulk in corners and hope their flesh turns to dust. Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

They do everything the hard way, even when they know better, and often complain and accuse others for their pain.

For people like this, even the song of a bird is a bother.

It's better to smile when people like that accuse.

It's better to wear shoes when walking on stones, better to take the shortest way.

There is weeping and wailing enough in the world, dumps full of worn-out guilt and remorse.

When the bird sings, it's better to look up and see that it beats its wings not to punish itself, but to fly.

 

 

 

 

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music
 
 

 

 Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

Women have to make jokes about themselves,

laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
 
 

-- Agnes Varda
 
 

 

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

Laughter can cure a physical condition; it can and will positively affect an emotional illness as well. Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

Laughter ushers in a new perspective which gives vent to a changed attitude. And our attitude toward any situation, any individual, is all-powerful.

A negative, critical attitude toward our financial situation, toward our disease, toward our boss, or spouse, or children, determines how we feel moment by moment.

In like manner, when we raise our sights, look at the world with lightness in our hearts, expecting to enjoy the day, the people, the activity, we'll succeed.

Finding humor in a situation, any situation, prevents us from succumbing to feelings of powerlessness.

Feeling powerless, behaving as victims, came easily for many of us.

Choosing a humorous response, opting to laugh at our situation, at any point in time, keeps our personal power where it belongs - with ourselves. 

_______________
 
 

Copyright © 2024 Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. All rights reserved. from the books Today's Gift and Each Day A New Beginning
 

Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music 10/23/2024
 
Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music
 
 
Inspirational Short Story, Female Fantasy Art, Relaxing Music

Fairy Wings image Copyright © Pixabay

House banners by vikimouse at The New Mousepad (dead link 2009) and other dividers from Lady Oh's Favorite GIFs and JPGs (dead link - 5/25/2001)

Seeing It As You Really Are image Copyright © Chris Down

Memory and Moon Dreamer images Copyright © Nene Thomas

__________
 
 
It Must Have Been Love
 
Sung by Roxette
 
_________
 
Lay a whisper on my pillow
Leave the winter on the ground
I wake up lonely, there's air of silence
In the bedroom all around
Touch me now, I close my eyes and dream away
 
It must have been love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched 'til the time had ran out
 
Make believing we're together
That I'm sheltered by your heart
But in and outside I've turned to water
Like a teardrop in your palm
And it's a hard winter's day, I dream away
 
It must have been love, but it's over now
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without
It must have been love, but it's over now
It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows
 
It must have been love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched till the time I ran out
 
Yeah it must have been love, but it's over now
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without
It must have been love, but it's over now
It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows
 

 

 

Top of Page