365 Things to Think About and Then Some: Perspective

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Learn

Learn to like what doesn't cost much.

Learn to like reading, conversation, music.

Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.

Learn to like fields, trees, brooks, hiking, rowing, climbing hills.

Learn to like people, even though some of them may be...different from you.

Learn to like to work and enjoy the satisfaction of doing your job as well as it can be done.

Learn to like the songs of birds, the companionship of dogs.

Learn to like gardening, puttering around the house and fixing things.

Learn to like the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter's day.

Learn to keep your want simple and refuse to be controlled by the likes and dislikes of others.

~~Poem by Lowell L. Bennion

I read this on a friends blog and couldn't agree more. I love this!

Getting Older

"I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I’m older I find that I don’t want to do them."

~~ Lady Nancy Astor

I feel that!

Perspective

The door is the most important thing

when a frigid wind blows.

~~Ladies of the House

Hallmark Movie

Time

Guard well your spare moments. They are like

uncut diamonds. Discard them & their value

will never be know. Improve them and they will

become the brightest gems in a useful life.

~~Ralph Waldo Emerson