Life Aspirations Heavenly Outlook

This picture taken on our way to the RGH, Daw Park. So cute! Your success and happiness lies in you.  Resolve to keep happy,   and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.   Helen Keller   The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.   Thomas Jefferson Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.   Democritus Explore This Website

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.   ~Alfred Lord Tennyson One must spend time  in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.   ~Edward C. Steadman~ Knowledge is a process  of piling up facts;  wisdom lies in their simplification.   ~Martin H. Fischer~ Explore This Website    

"One thing life taught me:  if you are interested,   you never have to look for new interests.  They come to you.  When you are genuinely interested in one thing,  it will always lead to something else." ~Eleanor Roosevelt   "Unless you try to do something  beyond what you have already mastered,  you will never grow." ~Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Osborn "Growth is the only evidence of life." ~John Henry Newman Explore This Website  

When we have lost everything,  including hope,  life becomes a disgrace,  and death a duty.        W. C. Field  Not without hope  we suffer and we mourn.       William Wordsworth   “Too often  we underestimate the power of a touch,  a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,  an honest compliment,  or the smallest act of caring,  all of which has the potential  to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia Explore This Website

Faith is the light  that guides you through the darkness.     ~Author: Unknown~  To fear is to expect punishment.   To love is to know we are immersed,  not in darkness, but in light.   ~Mother Teresa~ Faith is daring the soul  to go beyond what the eyes can see.       ~William Newton Clark~ Explore This Website

“For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can even describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty  and eternity that come,  suddenly, and all unexpected.” ~Jane Goodall~ "Look deep into nature,  and then you will understand everything better."   ~Albert Einstein~ Explore This Website

One of the inspiring magnificent gum trees view from our backyard! Nature uses human imagination  to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.   ~Luigi Pirandello~   "The sky is that beautiful old parchment  in which the sun and the moon keep their dairy." ~Alfred Kreymborg~   "Nature is painting for us, day by day,  pictures of infinite beauty  if only we have eyes to see them." ~John Ruskin~ Explore This Website

A New Year's Prayer May God make your year a happy one! Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain, But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes; Not by making your path easy, But by making you sturdy to travel any path; Not by taking hardships from you, But by taking fear from your heart; Not by granting you unbroken sunshine, But by keeping your face bright, even in the shadows; Not by making your life always pleasant, But by showing you when people and their causes need you most, and by making you anxious to be there to help. God's love, peace, hope and joy to you for the year ahead. ~Anonymous~ Explore This Website

O sacred and adorable Trinity,  hear our prayers  on behalf of our holy Father the Pope, our Bishops, our clergy, and for all that are in authority over us. Bless, we beseech Thee, during the coming year, the whole Catholic Church;  convert heretics and unbelievers;  soften the hearts of sinners  so that they may return to Thy friendship;  give prosperity to our country  and peace among the nations of the world;  pour down Thy blessings  upon our friends, relatives, and acquaintances,  and upon our enemies, if we have any;  assist the poor and the sick; have pity on the souls of those whom this year has taken from us; and do Thou be merciful  to those who during the coming year  will be summoned before Thy judgment seat. May all our actions be preceded  by Thy inspirations and carried on by Thy assistance, so that all our prayers and works,  having been begun in Thee, may likewise be ended through Thee. Amen. source: catholic.org/prayers/