A Simple Ancient Hack

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Sometimes your joy is

 the source of your smile, but 

sometimes your smile can be 

the source of your joy.

               Thich Nhat Hanh

 A smile remains the most inexpensive gift 

you can bestow on anyone and 

yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

      Og Mandino

Smiling is definitely one of 

the best beauty remedies.

 If you have a good sense of humor and 

a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.

              Rashida Jones

Because of your smile, 

you make life more beautiful.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Share your smile with the world. 

It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.

Christie Brinkley

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Neurotransmitters/endorphins 

make us feel happy.

It's really that simple.

They are released 

when you smile, 

triggered by the movements 

of facial muscles. 

This makes us feel happy, and

measurably lowers stress. 

Even a "fake" smile (or laugh!) 

triggers our brain in this way. 

Tell your brain

that you are happy

and it also believes that!

Why not trick yourself 

to your own benefit, 

mentally AND physically?

It will not be only

to your own benefit

I promise! 

When you smile

people treat you

differently!

This is proven.

It is a gift 

you give to others

and to yourself.

Life responds to

the generous.

Thank YOU

For sharing here!

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Heaven Eyes Over Hawaii

A    L    O    H    A  !

Only in a place like this do earth and sky 

come together in such a way that 

they bridge into one, and in such a place 

a person could put up her arms 

and find herself in heaven.

          Laura Pritchett

Nature, time and patience are 

the three great physicians. 

        Chinese proverb

When we look up, it widens our horizons. 

We see what a little speck we are in the universe, 

so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, 

but in the sky, there are no boundaries. 

No differences of caste or religion or race.

                             Julia Gregson

Birds were created to record everything.

 They were not designed just to be 

beautiful jewels in the sky, but 

to serve as the eyes of heaven.

               Suzy Kassem

Linking To

Saturday Critters

I'd Rather Be Birdin

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Beach Town Back Streets

A    L    O    H    A   !

Walk Up Apt, Window Air-con, Toyota, Moped

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, 

because it is easier to do nothing 

by the sea than anywhere else, 

and because bathing and basking 

on the shore cannot be considered 

an employment but only an 

apotheosis of loafing.

 E.F. Benson

Any patch of sunlight in a wood 

will show you something about the sun 

which you could never get from 

reading books on astronomy. 

These pure and spontaneous pleasures 

are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the 

woods of our experience.

            C.S. Lewis

She turned to the sunlight

    And shook her yellow head,

And whispered to her neighbor:

    "Winter is dead.”

               A.A. Milne, 

                        When We Were Very Young

I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.

George R.R. Martin

One of the remaining Royal Palm Groves

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Temptation

A    L    O    H    A  !

All right everyone, line up 

alphabetically according 

to your height. 

          Casey Stengel

If I were two-faced, would

I be wearing this one? 

          Abraham Lincoln

Yield to temptation. It may not 

pass your way again. 

        Robert A. Heinlein

Linking To

SkyWatch

Thankful Thursday

Little Things Thursday

Weekend Reflections

Feline Friday

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The Magician's Advice

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To practice magic is to be a quack; 

to know magic is to be a sage.

                  Éliphas Lévi 

We CAN possess that which we seek, 

namely, profound peace. 

Regret nothing which must end, 

but remember with satisfaction 

that we meet with good in all. 

Hope is a certitude, for we know 

that good is eternal and evil transitory. 

Enjoy solitude but do not fly

the society of people; 

Be a child with children, 

joyous with the young, 

staid with the old, 

patient with the foolish, 

happy with the wise. 

Smile with all who smile, 

and mourn with all who weep; 

applauding strength, yet be

indulgent to weakness; offending no one.

Have no need to pardon, simply 

never think yourself offended! 

Pity those who misconceive you,

 and seek an opportunity to serve them; 

by the force of kindness only 

avenge yourself on the ungrateful...

Judge not; speak hardly at all; 

love and act.

                     Éliphas Lévi 

We look on the wicked as invalids 

whom one must pity and cure; 

the world, with its errors and vices, is 

God's hospital, and we wish to serve in it.

Without fears and without desires, 

dominated by no falsehood, sharing no error, 

loving without illusion, suffering 

without impatience, reposing in 

the quietude of eternal thought...

                     Éliphas Lévi 

born Alphonse Louis Constant 

(February 8, 1810 – May 31, 1875) 

"French occult author and ceremonial magician."

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday
signs

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Bathroom This Way:

Dots

A   L   O   H   A  !

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. 

So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 

You have to trust in something-

your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. 

This approach has never let me down, and 

it has made all the difference in my life.

               Steve Jobs

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To Become Unlimited

A   L   O   H   A  !

Mural or Sign?

Life is like photography. 

You need the negatives 

to develop. Unknown

Papaya Blossoms Link [fascinating!]

We need to realize that our 

path to transformation 

is through our mistakes. 

We're meant to make mistakes, 

recognize them, and move on 

to become unlimited. 

                          Yehuda Berg

Drink Cane Juice? Link

God will not look you over for

 medals, degrees, or diplomas, 

but for scars.  Elbert Hubbard

Linking To

Monday Murals

Our World Tuesday

From The Archives

The Good.Random.Fun.

AWWW Monday

Travel Tuesday

Happy Tuesday

Pictorial Tuesday 

My Corner Of The World 

T Tuesday

wednesday signs

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Take Time To Smell The Flowers