Smiling Can Make You Feel Better

Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie

Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa

Always do the best you can,
and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can
rather than worrying about what you can't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness. In the words of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.

Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué

Further reading: Beyond Your Worries

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

No Regrets
   

Resist the Temptation to Judge Others

Judge not, that you be not judged.
For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged;
and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
- Matthew 7:1-2

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely
as small as what you allow to annoy you.
- Robert Anton Wilson

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed
by the defects of those with whom we associate.
- Francois Fenelon

Today's affirmation
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Love All, Judge None

Keep the Golden Rule

The Price of Anger

The Essence of Jesus' Teaching
   

Recognizing the Abundance We Already Have

Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins
with the realization that we have already arrived.
- Michael Beckwith

Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
- Wayne Dyer

Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus

Today's affirmation:
My Cup Runneth Over - My Life Is Abundant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Abundance

Gratitude for THIS Moment

Know that You have been Blessed

Is your glass of life half empty? Or half full?
    

Selflessness and Compassion

Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma

May we make the world a little kinder
and more compassionate
by reminding ourselves that often it is the random acts
of kindness that most benefit all of us.
- Anonymous

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with each other and forgive one another.
- Colossians 3:12

Today's affirmation:
I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Empathy

Open Mind - Open Heart

Through Each Other's Eyes
    

Beyond Worries

Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
- William James

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

To me, faith means not worrying.
- John Dewey

Today's affirmation:
I reach toward the shining mountains,
beyond the fog of daily worries.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Stop Worrying

Not Too Serious

Time to Smell the Flowers

The Shadow of Worry