Hours

What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.

~Unknown~

Dogs

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare, and in return, dogs give us their all.  It’s the best deal man has ever made.

~M. Acklam~

A Psalm Of Life

A Psalm of Life

Tell me not in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

But to act, that each tomorrow

Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act, – act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

People

People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.

~Unknown~

Miracles

There are two ways to live your life:  One, as if everything is a miracle.  The other is as though nothing is a miracle.

~Unknown~

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things in Him who strengthens me.

~Philippians 4:13~

Happy Living

The secret of happy living is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.

~Unknown~

Numbers 6:24-25

The Lord bless you and keep you;  the Lord make his face shine upon you.

~Numbers 6:24-25~

Acceptance

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are prasing God.

~St. Theresa of Avila~

Your Troubles…

If your troubles aren’t big enough to pray about, then they certainly aren’t big enough to worry about.

~Unknown~