Wednesday, April 18, 2007

If I Could Live My Life Again

from http://www.quotesandsayings.com/

If I could live my life again, I'd laugh at my misfortunes more and other people's predicaments less. Spend more time counting my blessings, less time scrutinizing my blemishes.

I'd spend more time playing with my children and grandchildren, less time watching professional athletes perform. More time enjoying what I have, less time thinking about the things I don't have.
If I could live my life again, I'd walk in the rain more without an umbrella and listen less to weather reports. I'd spend much more time outdoors in small towns and much less time in tall buildings and big cities. I'd eat more of everything healthy and delicious, less of everything each meal, saving enough on the bill to feed a starving child.
If I could live my life again,I'd get more beach sand between my toes and less friction between myself and others. I'd take more long baths and fewer showers (I can't explain why I've always been in such a hurry to spend my time). I'd spend more time with old people and animals, less time with strangers at clubs and parties.
I'd act the age of my children and grandchildren more and act my own age less. I'd visit libraries, bookstores, and computer networks more and malls and movie theatres less. I'd play the piano more and play fewer mindless games like solitaire. I'd give my spouse and children more tender touches and much less advice.
If I could live my life again, I'd spend more time fully involved in the present moment, less time remembering and anticipating. I'd be more aware of my core values and life mission, and less concerned with the reasons why I might not measure up.
I'd smile more, frown less. I'd express my feelings more, try less to impress my friends and neighbours. I'd forgive and ask forgiveness more, and curse my adversaries less - but most of all I'd be more spontaneous and active, less hesitant and subdued.
When a great idea or spur-of-the-moment adventure popped up - an Easter egg hunt, an open house at school, a game of hide-and-seek, an oppurtunity to solve a problem at work or to satisfy a disgruntled customer, a hay ride, a chance to build a snowman or paint over graffiti, an invitation to watch a lunar eclipse or a shuttle launch. I'd be less likely to stay in my chair objecting, "It's not in our plan" and more inclined to jump up and say, "Yes, let's".

Quotes [Part 3]

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
--John Dryden


Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.


"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough."


"The worst things about being lied to is knowing you aren't worth the truth."


A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. --H. G. Bohn

Faith makes all things possible.
Love makes them easy.

Love makes life so confusing, but without love
would you really want to live?

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship
and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it
will not be created for years or even generations.

~ Khalil Gibran ~


"Sometimes the happiest people you know are the saddest people you will ever meet."


"It's so hard to dry your tears when every way you turn it's just another reason to cry."


"Happiness isn't cheap. If it was we'd all be smiling."


Just give me one little second, and I will try my hardest to make you feel like I'm someone else."


"When life starts to rain on your parade...bust out the slip n' slide."


"Not everything is going to be picture perfect,

things take time and you have a lot to go through before you get what you want,

if you give up, then everything you went for becomes worthless."