All things beautiful

sexta-feira, 11 de março de 2022

Style - “Elegance is elimination.”

quinta-feira, 10 de março de 2022

“Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”

quarta-feira, 9 de março de 2022

I started living the life I imagined.

Vintage Brides - We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen

terça-feira, 8 de março de 2022

Joke - Who Want To Go To Hell?

This is said to be a favorite story of Lyndon Johnson’s.

A preacher was becoming terribly distracted by a man who came to church every Sunday and slept through the entire sermon.

One Sunday the preacher decided to do something about it.

As he began to preach, the man, true to form, fell fast asleep.

Whereupon the preacher said quietly, “Everyone who wants to go to heaven, stand up.” The entire congregation immediately stood up, except the sleeping man.

When they sat down, the preacher shouted at the top of his voice, “Everyone who want to go to hell, stand up.”

This startled the dozing man.

Still half asleep, he jumped up, looked around to see what was going on, then said to the preacher,

“I don’t know what we’re voting on but it looks like you and I are the only ones in favor of it.”

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Here's a dozen of my favorite things never to apologize for:

1) Never apologize for acting on your instincts.
2) Never apologize for being passionate.
3) Never apologize for being smart.
4) Never apologize for demanding respect.
5) Never apologize for saying no.
6) Never apologize for not embracing someone else's agenda.
7) Never apologize for disagreeing.
8) Never apologize for your faith.
9) Never apologize for your own sense of creativity.
10) Never apologize for ordering dessert.
11) Never apologize for being funny.
12) Never apologize for living your truth.

Every one of us casts a shadow.

There hangs about us, a sort of a strange, indefinable something, which we call personal influence--that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it--and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives . . . as light from a lamp, as heat from flame, as perfume from a flower.

The ministry of personal influence is something very wonderful. Without being conscious of it, we are always impressing others by this strange power that exudes from us. Others watch us--and their thinking and actions are modified by our influence."

"Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity." Ephesians 5:15-16

~J. R. Miller, "The Shadows We Cast"