for a happy journey

five simple rules to be happy:
1. free your heart from hatred
2. free your mind from worries
3. live simply
4. give more
5. expect less

no one can go back and make a brand new start. 

anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. 

God didn't promise days without pain, 

laughter without sorrw, sun without rain, 

but He did promise strength for the day, 

comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

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serenity prayer

God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the Courage to change the things I can,
and the Wisdom to know the Difference.

Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time,
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
taking this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;

trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your Will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.

- Reinhold Niebuhr -

absolute

Nothing is more practical than finding God.
That is, falling in love in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination,
Will affect everything.
It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning,
What you will do with your evenings,
How you spend your weekends,
What you read, what you know that breaks your heart,
And what amazes you with joy.
Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.

- Pedro Arrupe, SJ -