• you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. 
• no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back. 
• it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. 
• it’s not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts. 
• you can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life. 
• no matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides. 
• you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. 
• we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel. 
• there are people who love you dearly, but just don’t know how to show it. 
• true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love. 
• just because someone doesnt love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. 
• maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated. 
• no matter how good a friend someone is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that. 
• no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief. 
• just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.And just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do. 
• we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change. 
• you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever. 
• there are many ways of falling and staying in love. 
• no matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar, you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most. 
• the people you care most about in life are taken from you to soon. 
• although the word “love” can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used. 
• love is not for me to keep, but to pass on to the next person I see. 
• there are people who love you dearly but just don’t know how to show it. 
• even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. 
• every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch-holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. 
• I still have a lot to learn……

They really are contagious.

A smile is one of the strongest, yet silent forms of communication and expression.

A smile is something priceless and means different things for everyone. The most common is the positive reactions it causes. We are beings that’s thrive in positive energy. We spark to life, our day brightens. A smile can stop tears, stop a frown, ease ones pain, shed light on sorrow, make you blush, even fill one with excitement. The things a smile can do are truly limitless. Every ones smile can cause such different positive reactions in so many different people. The simple greatness of a smile is truly remarkable. It’s true… some of the best things in life are free, yet priceless.

A smile can not only make you look more cheerful and positive. It can also make you feel better, happier, more optimistic and confident about life in general. That’s not to say that people who are smiling on the outside are never feeling down, despondent and blue on the inside. But it can help raise your spirits by a few degrees at least. If it then leads to some friendly conversation with another human being, then the personal benefits are multiplied.

A smile can be like the sun breaking through the clouds on a dismal day. It can restore a person’s faith in their own value and the bigger picture of their world. A smile can make them feel that things might even be getting better.   Enough smiles may give them the incentive to do something even more positive that could potentially improve their outlook on life considerably.

It may sometimes take some effort to overcome your own glum mood enough to lift the corners of your mouth and smile – with your heart in it. Nevertheless, it’s so true that smiling costs the giver nothing they don’t have hidden somewhere within. Once accessed it can be automatically regenerated time and again, radiating warmth throughout your own soul and flowing out in all directions to touch and warm the souls of others. It’s one of the most powerful, magical – and totally free – therapies in the world.

Everyone smiles in the same language.

So put on a happy face!

Does anyone have a story they’d like to share about a smile they once received or gave to another, let’s all try to all put a smile on each other’s faces.  I know I’d love to hear them, and share them with others.

Here is mine:

Awhile back ago I went to a seminar on Michael Bernard Beckwiths “Spiritual Liberation” alone (something which I would normally never do, going alone that is).  During the seminar we all had to do an exercise together, we all had to stand and take each other’s hand of the person to our right, over to the right of me, was a beautiful young girl, but she was born without half of her left arm, as we both looked at each other and she said to me “sorry” I couldn’t believe she had just apologized to me for not having a hand to hold.  We both laughed as I put my arm around her and we carried on together, when we both looked at each other with hesitation and discomfort I’m sure (at first), but when we both laughed and exchanged smiles, that I can truly say for myself that was one of the best smiles given and received for me, and still makes me smile to this day just thinking about it, she truly was an amazing person I met that night.

Daya.

The pursuit of happiness is sometimes easier said than done.  

Some scientists have argued that happiness is largely determined by genetics, health and other factors mostly outside of our control. But recent research suggests people actually can take charge of their own happiness and boost it through certain practices.

“The billion-dollar question is, is it possible to become happier?” said psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside. “Despite the finding that happiness is partially genetically determined, and despite the finding that life situations have a smaller influence on our happiness than we think they do, we argue that still a large portion of happiness is in our power to change.”

Lyubomirsky spoke here Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She and colleagues last year reviewed 51 studies that tested attempts to increase happiness through different types of positive thinking, and found that these practices can significantly enhance well-being. The results were published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Here are five things that research has shown can improve happiness:

1. Be grateful — Some study participants were asked to write letters of gratitude to people who had helped them in some way. The study found that these people reported a lasting increase in happiness – over weeks and even months – after implementing the habit. What’s even more surprising: Sending the letter is not necessary. Even when people wrote letters but never delivered them to the addressee, they still reported feeling better afterward.
2. Be optimistic — Another practice that seems to help is optimistic thinking. Study participants were asked to visualize an ideal future – for example, living with a loving and supportive partner, or finding a job that was fulfilling — and describe the image in a journal entry. After doing this for a few weeks, these people too reported increased feelings of well-being
3. Count your blessings — People who practice writing down three good things that have happened to them every week show significant boosts in happiness, studies have found. It seems the act of focusing on the positive helps people remember reasons to be glad.
4. Use your strengths — Another study asked people to identify their greatest strengths, and then to try to use these strengths in new ways. For example, someone who says they have a good sense of humor could try telling jokes to lighten up business meetings or cheer up sad friends. This habit, too, seems to heighten happiness.
5. Commit acts of kindness — It turns out helping others also helps ourselves. People who donate time or money to charity, or who altruistically assist people in need, report improvements in their own happiness.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35527612/ns/health-behavior/