Wiser on Wednesdays - Contentment

Do not spoil what you have

by desiring what you have not;

remember that what you now have

was once among the things you only hoped for.

- Epicurus

Today I am grateful that...

1. The sun is shining.
2. I get to see my DD, DSnL, Repeat and Shortie everyday
3. I know my way to and from work without the GPS
4. A friend said he is proud of my risky, courageous move
5. I spoke with my BFF for over an hour uninterrupted!
6. I'm driving to see a friend from school this weekend!
7. I worked all day in the garden on Saturday
8. I have plants in my office
9. The baby will be here soon!
10. Repeat included me in his family "flower".
11. Shortie tells me about his day.
12. I am happy!!
13. I am loved!

Wiser on Wednesday - strength and courage

Strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories.

They are measured in the struggles they overcome.

The strongest people aren't always the people who win,

but the people who don't give up when they lose.

Ashley Hodgeson

Wiser on Wednesday - miscellaneous qoutes

• He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg. - Chinese Proverb
• I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King Jr. (US clergyman and civil rights leader 1929-1968)
• Show me your friend and I will show you your character (in Akan kyereme woadamfo na menkyere wo wosuban.) - Kwaku Boateng
• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." —Margaret Mead
• If you fail to plan , you will plan to fail - Kolawole Kayode
• With the people, for the people, by the people, I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, 'cause that's what really happens. - Fannie Lou Hamer (U.S. civil rights activist, 1917-1977)
• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves - Willian Hazlitt (English essayist, 1778-1830)
• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb
• We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. - Gwendolyn Brooks