It's all right to be fearful of the unknown;
it's smart to walk slowly into the darkness.
It's all right to think twice about making changes;
it's wise to look ahead in all directions
before starting out on a new road.

It's all right to reconsider
and reevaluate some of your feelings;
it's good to let your emotions settle down
before you rearrange your life and your dreams.

Difficult times require difficult decisions to be made,
and the easy answers that once solved your problems
are no longer the right answers.

Take some time to really think about
what you want to do with your life and your future.
Be honest with yourself.
Ask yourself if you are happy
the way you are living now
or if you need to make a change.

Happiness comes to those who are willing to believe in it
And who create it within their own lives.
You deserve to be happy.
You deserve to be treated with respect.
Your life should be filled with good times, not troubled ones.
Take some time and think about yourself.

You may feel at times as though your husband's driving you crazy, but sharing your days with another person actually protects your brain. People living alone at midlife are twice as likely to develop cognitive impairment later in life as those who are married or cohabiting, a Scandinavian study of l,400 men and women has found. The protection is even greater for those who have a high risk of dementia. If married, these people are about 3 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's than married folks without the high-risk gene. But if they're widowed or divorced, their odds are 25.6 times higher. "Grief is part of it," says psychology researcher Krister Hakansson. "But it may also be that in a relationship, you can't stick to your routines as easily because your partner has other ways of doing things. That give-and-take may help keep the neurons firing." If you live alone, you can still reap some of the benefits of coupledom. "Develop a rich social life, with challenging hobbies," Hakansson suggests.

I always have this bathroom problem ever since I remember. Every time I drink, after five minutes I have to run to the bathroom. It’s annoying sometimes. Other times, I had to really stop and drink water as I felt so thirsty like I had never drunk water for the whole day. My husband used to tease me that I don’t seem to have a bladder; the water go out right away.

Well, overactive bladder can keep you running to the bathroom, but the solution may be as simple as ... drinking less. British doctors asked 24 men and women who suffered from urinary frequency and urgency to keep diaries while adjusting their drinking habits, either increasing or decreasing their normal intake for four days at a time. When people boosted their fluids by 25 or 50 percent, they urinated even more (no surprise). Cutting fluids by half was also a problem. Some of the subjects felt thirsty and a few got headaches. But lowering intake by 25 percent worked well: The average number of daytime bathroom trips dropped from 9.5 to 7.75; nighttime, from 1.8 to 1.5; and there was a 34 percent drop in urgency symptoms. As long as you're drinking more than a quart of fluids a day, it's fine to cut back and see if urinary symptoms get better, says Hashim Hashim, M.D., of the British Urological Institute.

An easy way to make the change: Enjoy beverages when you usually do, but pour only three-quarters as much, he suggests. I hope this idea will help my bathroom urgency problem.

They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

Just a reminder...
Three things in life that, once gone- never come back:
Time
Words
Opportunity

Three things in life that are most valuable:
Love
Self-Confidence
Friends

Three things in life that are never certain:
Dreams
Success
Fortune

Three things that make a man/woman:
Hard Work
Sincerity
Commitment

Three things in life that can destroy a man/woman:
Alcohol
Pride
Anger

Three things in life that, once lost, hard to build-up:
Respect
Trust
Friendship

According to The Prophet "Kahlil Gibran":

Sweetness is closer to bitterness than it is to decay, no matter how sweetish its smell.

The essence of everything on earth, seen and unseen, is spiritual. On entering the invisible city my body is covered by my spirit. Who so seeks to cleave the body from the spirit or the spirit from the body is turning his heart away from the truth? The flower and its fragrance are one; they are blind who deny the color and the image of the flower, saying that it possesses only a fragrance vibrating in the ether. They are like those, deficient in the sense of smell, to whom flowers are nought but shapes and hues without fragrance.

Everything in creation exists within you, and everything in you exists in creation. You are in borderless touch with the closest things, and, what is more, distance is not sufficient to separate you from things far away. All things from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, exist within you as equal things. In one atom are found all the elements of the earth. One drop of water contains all the secrets of the oceans. In one motion of the mind are found all the motions of all the laws of existence.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that it is within them.

In the economy of divine charity we have only as much as we give. But we are called upon to give as much as we have, and more: as much as we are. So the measure of our love is theoretically without limit. The more we desire to give ourselves in charity, the more charity we will have to give. And the more we give the more truly we shall be. For the Lord endows us with a being proportionate to the giving for which we are destined.

Charity is the life and the riches of His Kingdom, and those are greatest in it who are least: that is, who have kept nothing for themselves, retaining nothing but their desire to give.

He who tries to retain what he is and what he has, and keep it for himself, buries his talent. When the Lord comes in judgment, this servant is found to have no more than he had at the beginning. But those who have made themselves less, by giving away what they had, shall be found both to be and to have more than they had. And to him who has most shall be given that which the unprofitable servant kept for himself.

-Thomas Merton "No Man Is An Island"