Don't date because you are desperate.
Don't marry because you are miserable.
Don't have kids because you think your
genes are superior.
Don't philander because you think you
are irresistible.

Don't associate with people you can't
trust.
Don't cheat. Don't lie. Don't pretend.
Don't dictate because you are smarter.
Don't demand because you are stronger.

Don't sleep around because you think
you are old enough & know better.
Don't hurt your kids because loving
them is harder.
Don't sell yourself, your family, or
your ideals.
Don't stagnate!

Don't regress.
Don't live in the past. Time can't
bring anything or anyone back.
Don't put your life on hold for
possibly Mr. Right.
Don't throw your life away on
absolutely Mr. Wrong because your
biological clock is ticking.

Learn a new skill.
Find a new friend.
Start a new career.
Sometimes, there is no race to be won,
only a price to be paid for some of
life's more hasty decisions.

To terminate your loneliness, reach out
to the homeless.
To feed your nurturing instincts, care
for the needy.
To fulfill your parenting fantasies,
get a puppy.
Don't bring another life into this
world for all the wrong reasons.

To make yourself happy, pursue your
passions & be the best of what you can
be.
Simplify your life. Take away the
clutter.
Get rid of destructive elements:
abusive friends, nasty habits, and
dangerous liaisons.
Don't abandon your responsibilities but
don't overdose on duty.

Don't live life recklessly without
thought and feeling for your family.
Be true to yourself.
Don't commit when you are not ready.
Don't keep others waiting needlessly.

Go on that trip. Don't postpone it.
Say those words. Don't let the moment
pass.
Do what you have to, even at society's
scorn.

Write poetry.
Love Deeply.
Walk barefoot.
Dance with wild abandon.
Cry at the movies.

Take care of yourself. Don't wait for
someone to take care of you.
You light up your life.
You drive yourself to your destination.
No one completes you - except YOU.

It isn't true that life does not get
easier with age.
It only gets more challenging.
Don't be afraid. Don't lose your
capacity to love.
Pursue your passions.

Live your dreams.
Don't lose faith in God.
Don't grow old. Just grow YOU!

When you give someone your time, you
are giving them a portion of your life
that you'll never get back.
Your time is your life. That is why the
greatest gift you can give to someone
is your time.
Relationships take time and effort, and
the best way to spell love is
T-I-M-E because the essence of love is
not what we think or do or provide for
others,
but how much we give of ourselves

God is good all the time!


TY BEAN BOK! for posting this! I loved it a lot! I'm praying that I'll be able to live by these words as i go through my journey in this so called "LIFE"!

Think about every single person who has ever harmed you,cheated you,defrauded you or said unkind things about you. Your experience of them is nothing more than a THOUGHT that you carry around with you. These thoughts of resentment, anger and hatred represent slow debilitating energies that will empower you. If you could release them, you would know and have more peace. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel and how much more peace you'll have. Indeed there are no justified resentments if you wish to walk along the extra mile and enjoy the inner peace and success on every step of the path.

The Key to Happiness
By: Brian Tracy

Your ability to achieve your own happiness is the key measure of your success, of how well you are doing as a person.

You learn the key to happiness that has been the same through all of history. You learn how to dispel the two myths that may be holding you back and how to achieve more happiness in everything you do.

Dedicate Yourself to Your Best Talents
The key to happiness is this: dedicate yourself to the development of your natural talents and abilities by doing what you love to do, and doing it better and better in the service of a cause that is greater than yourself.

This is a big statement and a big commitment. Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.

Please Yourself First
In Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano is asked why he is so intensely individualistic and unconcerned with the opinions and judgments of others. He replies with these wonderful words: "I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things."

Your happiness likewise depends upon your ability to please at least yourself in all things. You can be happy only when you are living your life in the very best way possible. No one can define happiness for you. Only you know what makes you happy. Happiness is an inside job.

Your Happiness is Up to You
The biggest myth about happiness is when people say that it is not legitimate or correct for you to put your happiness ahead of everyone else's. Throughout my life, I've met people who have said that it is more important to make other people happy than it is to make yourself happy. This is nonsense.

The fact is that you can't give away to anyone else what you don't have for yourself. Just as you can't give money to the poor if you don't have any, you can't make someone else happy if you yourself are miserable.

The very best way to assure the happiness of others is to be happy yourself and then to share your happiness with them. Suffering and self-sacrifice merely depress and discourage other people. If you want to make others happy, start by living the kind of life and doing the kind of things that make you happy.

Action Exercises
Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, define for yourself the activities that you really love and enjoy, at home and work, and then organize your life so you do more of them.

Second, believe in yourself and trust your own feelings. Then, please at least yourself in all things.

Third, determine what it is that you do that brings the most happiness to others and then organize your life so that you can do more of it.