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I suppose the
best piece of advice
I could give anyone is pretty simple:
get a life.
A real life,
not the manic pursuit of the next promotion,
the bigger
paycheck, the larger house.
Do you think
you'd care so very much about those things
if you
developed an aneurysm one afternoon,
or found a
lump in your breast while in the shower?
Get a life in
which you notice the smell of salt water
pushing
itself on a breeze over the dunes,
a life in which you stop and watch how a
red-tailed hawk
circles over
a pond and a stand of pines.
Get a life in
which you pay attention to the baby
as she scowls
with concentration when she tries to pick up
a Cheerio
with her thumb and first finger.
Turn off your
cell phone.
Turn off your
regular phone, for that matter.
Keep still.
Be present.
Get a life in
which you are not alone.
Find people
you love, and who love you.
And remember that love is not leisure, it is
work.
Each time I look at my diploma,
I remember that I am still a student,
still
learning every day to be human.
Send an
e-mail. Write a letter.
Kiss your
mom. Hug your dad.
Get a life in
which you are generous.
Look around
at the azaleas making fuchsia star
bursts in
spring;
look at a
full moon hanging silver in a black
sky on a cold night.
And realize that life is glorious,
and that you
have no business taking it for granted.
Care so
deeply about its goodness
that you want
to spread it around.
Take the money that you would have spent
on beers in a
bar and give it to charity.
Work in a
soup kitchen. Tutor a seventh-grader.
All of us
want to do well. But if we do not do good, too,
then doing
well will never be enough.
Life is
short. Remember that, too.
I've always
known this. Or almost always.
I've been living with mortality for decades,
since my
mother died of ovarian cancer
when she was
forty and I was nineteen.
And this is
what I learned from that experience:
that
knowledge of our own mortality
is that
greatest gift God ever gives us.
It is so easy
to waste our lives:
our days, our hours, our minutes.
It is so easy to take for granted
the pale new
growth on an evergreen,
the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue,
the color of our kids' eyes,
the way the melody
in a symphony rises
and falls and
disappears and rises again.
It is so easy
to exist instead of live.
Anna Quindlen
"The road
to happiness
lies in two simple principles:
find what
interests you
and that you can
do well,
and put your
whole soul into it –
every bit of
energy
and ambition
and natural
ability
you have."
~~John D. Rockefeller, III
Love and
forgiveness
always go together
because you
can't love people
unless you forgive them
and you can't
forgive people
unless you love
them.
~~Unknown
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Being a role
model
is the most
powerful
form of
educating.
Youngsters need
good models
more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's
greatest responsibilities
and
opportunities.
- John Wooden
"Worry a
little bit every day
and in a
lifetime
you will lose a
couple of years.
If something is
wrong,
fix it if you can.
But train
yourself not to worry.
Worry never
fixes anything."
Mary Hemingway
"I've always
found
that anything worth achieving
will always Have
obstacles
in the way
and you've got
to have
that drive And
determination
to overcome
those obstacles
on route to Whatever it is
that you want to
accomplish."
~~Chuck Norris
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“You deserve to feel like
Number One!”
It’s time to clean house and
surrender
any destructive thoughts in your
head.
No more will you allow negative
people
to scramble your brain.
No more will you dwell on painful
uncomfortable times.
Let go means – let go!
Make it a priority to keep investing
in yourself
and your well being.
Make room in your life for happiness,
success, healing and fulfilling relationships.
Before you know it,
you will start feeling entitled to
abundance.
And, that is as it should be,
because you are
Number One!
©Jane Powell
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- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup salted butter softened
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 11/2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cube cream cheese softened
- 1 can Eaglebrand sweet condensed milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 12 oz pkg mini white chocolate reese's peanut butter cups
- Cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Add one egg in at a time. Mix in cocoa, flour and baking powder. Beat until smooth. Split the bag of reeses in half. You will use half the bag in the brownie batter and half the bag for the frosting. Cut the reeses into four pieces and mix into the batter.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes in a 9 x 13 inch greased pan. Do NOT over bake.
- Allow brownies to cool for one hour.
- For the frosting beat together the cream cheese, sweet condensed milk and vanilla. Beat for 2 minutes. Spread on top of the brownies. Sprinkle the remaining reese's on top and refrigerate for 2-3 hours before serving.
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For those who can’t stand
the scrunching and bunching:
how to perfectly fold a fitted sheet.
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The Marabut Rock formation in Samar
The Blue Lagoon of Libtong in Cantilan, Surigao del Sur will surely make your jaw drop upon witnessing its calm turquoise water. This place is the sanctuary of thousands of sting-less jelly fish during breeding season and other colorful marine animals."
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DURIAN TART
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