My Father’s Wisdom and Other Uplifting Quotes

Always put your own oxygen mask on first. If we take care of ourselves as a number one priority, we will be able to take care of others too.
Put the baseball bat down – handy for when we are being too hard on ourselves.
Always be the best version of yourself.
Everything can be fixed with a good night’s sleep, water and big hugs.
Over himself, over his own body and mind the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill.
When you are most yourself, it is Love that defines you. It is Love that endlessly pursues you, fights for you, works and waits on your behalf. It is Love for which you persevere, no matter the setbacks, the heartbreak, the grief. Believe me you can trust your heart. Ronna Detrick.
An invisible thread exists where people are destined to meet regardless of time place or circumstance. The thread may stretch and tangle, but it will never break. May you be open to each thread that comes into your life, the Golden ones and the course ones and may you weave them into a brilliant and beautiful life. Lao Tzu

A Prosperity Blessing from Abundance Quotes

May you be blessed with an amazingly abundant day today.

May the clouds break and the heavens pour down upon you more joy, more love, more laughter and more money than you could have ever dreamed of.

May you be cleansed today of any resistance or feelings of unworthiness that you may still be holding onto.

May the sun shine its golden light of prosperity through every cell of your extraordinary body.

May your false illusions of doubt, fear and scarcity gently fall away like soft white feathers on a gentle breeze.

May you be willing, simply willing to allow the universe to shower you with miracles today.

Maybe Angels wrap you in their shining wings of opulence.

May the faeries deliver you to the pot of gold at the end of a majestic rainbow.

May your eye shine with the glorious truth of who you really are and may that truth uplift others in your presence to their own inner knowing.

May your ears hear the sound of perfection ringing in your soul.

May you taste the deliciousness of every precious bite of life as your day unfolds moment by moment with amazing Grace, heartfelt love and a bounty of magnificent money.

As this day ends, may you slumber wrapped in an exquisite blanket of enduring peace and profound gratitude.

And may the last words you speak today be Thank you.

Shine. Marianne Williamson

`Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous.

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

You’re playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from fear, our presence automatically liberates others. `

Words of inspiration

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead.

The problem well defined is half solved. Anonymous

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome. Albert Einstein

Organising is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it it’s not all mixed up. Christopher Robin in Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne.

I never could have done what I have done without the habit of punctuality order and diligence. Charles Dickens

Fantasies are more than substitutes for an unpleasant reality, they are also dress rehearsals. All acts performed in the world began in the imagination. Barbara G Harrison.

Change everything except your love’s. Voltaire.

He who has begun is half done. Dare to be wise. Begin now. Horace.

Great minds have purposes others wishes. Washington Irving.

Establishing priorities and using your time well aren’t things you can pick up at Harvard business School. If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s important and then give it all you’ve got. Lee Iacocca.

Stress 10 Commandments

Thou shall not be perfect or even try.

Thou shalt not try to be all things to all people.

Thou shalt leave undone things that ought to be done.

Thou shalt not spread thyself too thin.

Thou shalt learn to say No

Thou shall schedule time thyself

Thou shalt switch off and do nothing regularlyLove is a canvas. Voltaire

Thou shalt be boring, inelegant, and untidy and unattractive at times

Thou shall not feel guilty.

Thou shalt not be thine own worst enemy.

Love is a canvas. Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and painted by the imagination.

Love hold hands not grudges. The more love you give away the more room you have in your heart.

Love blesses good times with laughter and difficult times with caring.

Love blesses every day with contentment and special days with joy.

Love blesses today with memories and tomorrow with hopes and dreams.

100 years from now. Dennis de Young

100 years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

The most beautiful stones

The most beautiful stones, have been tossed by the wind, washed by the water, and polished to brilliance by life’s strongest storms. Somehow, somewhere in all you’re going through, may something beautiful, come out of this.

Whatever you can do

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

An Irish blessing

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His Hand.

If there is life in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is ordering the nation, there will be peace in the world. Chinese proverb

The day will come when, after harvesting space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world we shall have discovered fire. Tielhard de Chardin.

All of us are walking around with some kind of birthday card we would love to give. Some personal expression of joy, creativity or aliveness that we are hiding under our shirts. Anonymous

Eight ways to put laughter in your life

Dr Paul McGee, the President of the Laughter Remedy, suggests eight ways to put more laughter in your life.

Make a list of fun things you enjoy doing and do them. Hang around positive people.

Immerse yourself in humour. Watch cartoons or funny movies, spend Saturday nights at a comedy club, your lunch hour at a costume shop, and weekends with children.

Find jokes and tell them. Start with one and people will tell you their favourites.

Focus on seeing and creating ambiguity, forming puns. Sometimes you see these in newspaper headlines” grandmother of nine shoots hole in one”.

Look for humour in everyday situations. And if you overhear something funny, write it down so you can remember it and tell it to others.

Just laugh more often and more heartily. Work on great big belly laughs not just chuckles.

Learn to laugh at yourself in a kind way. Make a list of things you don’t like about yourself, then just start poking fun at them, exaggerate them. Learn to find humour in difficult situations, in the midst of stress. This is when you really need to and when your sense of humour can often abandon you.

Favourite jokes

This is a fairy-tale that we should have been reading as little girls.

Once upon a time, in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured Princess happened upon a frog. She sat, contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond, in a verdant meadow near her Castle. A Frog hopped into the Princess’s lap and said Elegant lady; I was once a handsome prince, until an evil which cast a spell upon me.

One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into the handsome young prince that I am. And then my sweet, we can marry and set up housekeeping in your castle with my mother, where you can satisfy my needs, prepare and serve my meals, clean my clothes, have my children and forever feel grateful and happy doing so.

That night, as the beautiful Princess dined sumptuously on lightly sautéed frog’s legs in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled and thought to herself. I DON’T THINK SO.

Another joke

One day when a seamstress was sewing while sitting close to a river, but the thimble fell into the river. When she cried out the Lord appeared and asked my dear child why you crying? The seamstress replied that the thimble had fallen into the water. She said she needed it to help her husband in making a living for their family.

The Lord dipped his hand into the water and pulled up a Golden thimble set with pearls. Is this your thimble the Lord asked? The seamstress replied no.

The Lord again dipped into the river. He held out the silver thimble ringed with sapphires. He said is this your thimble? The seamstress replied no.

The Lord reached down again and came up with a leather thimble is this your thimble the Lord asked. The seamstress replied yes. The Lord was pleased with the woman’s honesty and gave her all the thimbles to keep.

Some years later, the seamstress was walking with her husband along the riverbank, and her husband fell into the river and disappeared under the water. When she cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked her why you crying? Oh Lord my husband has fallen into the river. The Lord went down into the water and came up with George Clooney. Is this your husband?

Yes, cried the seamstress. The Lord was furious. You lie that is not true.

The seamstress replied forgive me my lord. It is a misunderstanding. You see if I’d said no to George Clooney, you would’ve come along with Hugh Jackman. If I had said no to you – You would’ve come up with my husband. Had I then said yes you would’ve given me all three.

Lord I’m not in the best of health and would not be able to take care of all three husbands. That’s why I said yes to George Clooney.

And so, the Lord let her keep him.

Enjoy

This is something to think about when negative people are doing their best to rain on your parade.

A woman was at her hairdressers getting a hairstyle for a trip to Rome with her boyfriend. She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded Rome? Why would anyone want to go there? It’s crowded and dirty and full of Italians. You’re crazy to go to Rome. So how are you getting there?

We’re taking Continental was the reply. We got a great rate.

Continental! Exclaimed the hairdresser. That’s a terrible airline. Their planes are old, the flight attendants are ugly, and they are always late. So where are you staying in Rome?

We’ll be at this exclusive little place over on Rome’s Tiber River called Teste.

Don’t go any further said the hairdresser. I know that place. Everybody thinks it’s going to be something special and exclusive, but it’s really not. It’s the worst hotel in the city. The rooms are small, the service is surly and they are overpriced. So what are you going to be doing when you get there? She asked.

We’re going to see the Vatican and we hope to see the Pope.

That’s rich laughter hairdresser! You and 1 million other people will be trying to see him. He will look like the size of a pea. Good luck on this lousy trip of yours you’re sure going to need it!

A month later, the woman again came in for a hairdo. The hairdresser asked about her trip to Rome.

It was wonderful exclaims the woman. Not only were we on time in one of Continental’s brand-new planes, but it was overbooked and so they bumped us up to first class. The food and wine were wonderful and I had a handsome 28-year-old Steward who waited on me hand and foot. The hotel was great. They had just finished a £5 million remodelling job and now it’s a jewel, the finest hotel in the city. They too were overbooked, so they apologised and gave us their owner’s suite at no extra charge.

Well said the hairdresser, that is all well and good but I know you didn’t get to see the Pope.

Actually, we were quite lucky, because as we toured the Vatican, a Swiss guard tapped me on the shoulder. He explained that the Pope likes to meet some of the visitors and if I’d be so kind as to step into his private room and wait, the Pope would personally greet me. Sure enough, five minutes later the Pope walked through the door and shook my hand. I knelt down and he spoke a few words to me.

Oh really what did he say? Said the hairdresser.

He said where did you get that terrible hairdo.

Another joke.

On a Sunday afternoon a woman says to her husband. Can you mend the front door step as its really wonky.‘ He replies `Look at my face. Do I look like a builder? ` A short time later the woman says `Can you fix the light switch in the hallway as it’s not straight and its wobbly? ` He answers. `Look at my face. Do I look like an electrician? ` The woman responds by saying `No you don’t look like an electrician. ` Later on the woman says `The tap in the kitchen is dripping can you fix it please? `The man responds` Look at my face. Do I look like a plumber? ` He then says ‘Right I’m off to the pub.’

He comes back to the house a few hours later. He says ` Wow You’ve done such a good job of fixing everything.` The woman says `Oh I didn’t do it. A young man was passing as I was cementing the front step. He said Would you like a hand with that lady? So, I said Yes. ` He fixed that and then he said ”Is there anything else I can help you with lady?” So I said “Yes there is a wonky switch in the hallway, if you could fix that it would be great. “ He fixed the light switch and then said “Is there anything else I can help you with lady?” So, I said “Yes there is a dripping tap in the kitchen.” He fixed that too. Her husband said ‘how much did that cost us? ‘ She said `It didn’t cost us anything. The young man said I don’t want any money so you can either make me a delicious meal or make mad passionate love to me`. So, her husband said `what did you cook him?` She responded `Look at my face do I look like a chef? `

Enjoy Love and laughter Annie XXX