All things beautiful

domingo, 27 de dezembro de 2020

Observations on Growing Older

  ~ Your kids are becoming you... and you don't like them... but your grandchildren are perfect!

~ Going out is good... Coming home is better!

~ When people say you look "Great"... they add "for your age!"

~ When you needed the discount, you paid full price. Now you get discounts on everything... movies, hotels, flights, but you're too tired to use them.

~ You forget names …. but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!!

~ The 5 kilos you wanted to lose  is now 10 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 10 kilos

~ You realize you're never going to be really good at anything .... especially golf.

~ Your spouse is counting on you to remember things you don't remember.

~ The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to do them anymore.

~ Your husband sleeps better on a lounge chair  with the TV blaring than he does in bed.  It's called his "pre-sleep".

~ Remember when your mother said...
"Wear clean underwear in case you GET in an accident"?
Now you bring clean underwear in case you HAVE an accident!

~ You used to say,
"I hope my kids GET married...
Now, "I hope they STAY married!"

~ You miss the days when everything worked  with just an "ON" and "OFF" switch.

~ When GOOGLE, iPod, email, modem - were unheard of, and a mouse was something  that made you climb on a table.

~ You used to use more 4 letter words …
"what?"..."when?"... ???

~ Now that you can afford  expensive jewelry, it's not safe to wear it anywhere.

~ Your husband has a night out with the guys, but he's home by 9:00 p.m. Next week it will be 8:30 p.m.

~ You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it.

~ Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!!

~ What used to be freckles are now age spots.

~ Everybody whispers.

~ Now that your husband has retired … you'd give anything if he'd find a job!

~ You have 3 sizes of clothes in your wardrobe … 2 of which you will never wear.

~ But old is good in some things:
old songs,
old movies,
And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!!

sábado, 26 de dezembro de 2020

D I V I N A L esta D. Beatriz vale a pena ler

A D. Beatriz, senhora alentejana, 80 anos, solteira, organista numa igreja da Diocese de Beja.
É admirada por todos pela sua simpatia e doçura.

Uma tarde, convidou o novo padre da igreja para ir lanchar a sua casa e ele ficou sentado no sofá, enquanto ela foi preparar um chá.

Olhando para cima do órgão, o jovem padre reparou numa jarra de vidro com água e, lá dentro, boiava um preservativo.

Quando a D. Beatriz voltou com o chá e as torradas, o padre não resistiu e perguntou-lhe o porquê de tal decoração em cima do órgão.

E responde ela apontando para a jarra: "Ah! refere-se a isto?

Maravilhoso, não é? Há uns meses atrás, ia eu a passear pelo parque, quando encontrei um pacotinho no chão. As indicações diziam para colocar no órgão, manter húmido e que, assim, ficava prevenida contra todas as doenças. E sabe uma coisa senhor Padre?
Este Inverno ainda não me constipei".

É A Fé QUEM NOS SALVA...

ALL SERIOUS DARINGS STARTS FROM WITHIN.

YOU ARE THE STRONGEST WHEN RELAXED AND AT PEACE.

LET THE REFINING AND IMPROVING OF YOUR OWN LIFE KEEP YOU SO BUSY THAT YOU HAVE LITTLE TIME TO CRITICIZE OTHERS.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, TAKE ON YOUR CHALLENGES, DIG DEEP WITHIN YOURSELF TO CONQUER FEARS.

NEVER LET ANYONE BRING YOU DOWN.

YOU HAVE GOT TO KEEP GOING.

SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE THAT REFLECT WHO YOU WANT TO BE AND HOW YOU WANT TO FEEL, ENERGIES ARE CONTAGIOUS.

ONE DAY YOU WILL LOOK BACK AND REALIZE THAT YOU WORRIED TOO MUCH ABOUT THINGS THAT DID NOT REALLY MATTER.

THE THINGS YOU DO EITHER GIVE YOU ENERGY OR DRAIN YOU.

CHOOSE WISELY.

SOME CHANGES LOOK NEGATIVE ON THE SURFACE BUT YOU WILL SOON REALIZE THAT SPACE IS BEING CREATED IN YOUR LIFE FOR SOMETHING NEW TO EMERGE.

THE PERSON YOU ARE DESTINED TO BECOME IS THE PERSON YOU DECIDE TO BE.

FREEDOM IS BEING YOU WITHOUT ANYONE'S PERMISSION.

BE BOLD ENOUGH TO USE YOUR VOICE, BRAVE ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO YOUR HEART, AND STRONG ENOUGH TO LIVE THE LIFE YOU'VE IMAGINED.

Live Life Happy

A blind girl hated herself purely for the fact she was blind. The only person she didn’t hate was her loving boyfriend, as he was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry him. One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her – now she could see everything, including her boyfriend. Her boyfriend asked her, “now that you can see the world, will you marry me? The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him. Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying: “Just take care of my eyes dear.”

Moral of the story:

When our circumstances change, so does our mind. Some people may not be able to see the way things were before, and might not be able to appreciate them. There are many things to take away from this story, not just one.