Life’s Daily Recipe
Compliment three people every day.
Watch a sunrise at least once a year.
Be the first to say, “Hello.”
Live beneath your means.
Treat everyone like you want to be treated.
Never give up on anybody - miracles happen.
Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
Be tough-minded but tenderhearted.
Be kinder than necessary.
Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
Keep your promises.
Learn to show cheerfulness, even when you don’t feel like it.
Overnight success usually takes about 15 years.
Leave everything better than you found it.
Winners do what losers don’t want to do.
When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
Don’t rain on other people’s parades.
Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
By Author Unknown
Compliment three people every day.
Watch a sunrise at least once a year.
Be the first to say, “Hello.”
Live beneath your means.
Treat everyone like you want to be treated.
Never give up on anybody - miracles happen.
Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
Be tough-minded but tenderhearted.
Be kinder than necessary.
Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
Keep your promises.
Learn to show cheerfulness, even when you don’t feel like it.
Overnight success usually takes about 15 years.
Leave everything better than you found it.
Winners do what losers don’t want to do.
When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
Don’t rain on other people’s parades.
Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
By Author Unknown
Whatever Dreams You’re Dreaming
Whatever dreams you’re dreaming,
May each one of them come true.
Whatever plans you’re making,
May they all work out for you.
And may you have more happiness
Than any words can tell.
Not only on this day,
But all the year as well.
May you have a little sunlight
To guide you on your way.
May you discover, little by little,
Happiness that’s here to stay.
May you grow a little stronger
And a little wiser with each dawn
May you have a little time to
Believe in dreams to dream upon
May all the joy your heart desires
Find its way to you.
And may the blessings that brighten up
Your days keep on shining through.
By Author Unknown
Whatever dreams you’re dreaming,
May each one of them come true.
Whatever plans you’re making,
May they all work out for you.
And may you have more happiness
Than any words can tell.
Not only on this day,
But all the year as well.
May you have a little sunlight
To guide you on your way.
May you discover, little by little,
Happiness that’s here to stay.
May you grow a little stronger
And a little wiser with each dawn
May you have a little time to
Believe in dreams to dream upon
May all the joy your heart desires
Find its way to you.
And may the blessings that brighten up
Your days keep on shining through.
By Author Unknown
Tackle The Thing
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he tried.
So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and did it.
Somebody scoffed: Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one has ever done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.
By Edgar A. Guest: Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest (1934), page 285
Edgar Albert ‘Eddie’ Guest was born on 20 August 1881 in Birmingham, England. He immigrated with his family to the United States of America in 1891. From his first published work in the “Detroit Free Press” until his passing in 1959, he penned some 11,000 poems that were syndicated in 300 newspapers and collected into more than twenty books. Mr. Guest is reputed to have had a new poem published in a newspaper every day for more than thirty years. He became known as ‘The People’s Poet,’ writing poems that were of a sentimental and optimistic nature. Edgar Albert ‘Eddie’ Guest passed on at 77 years of age on 5 August 1959 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he tried.
So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and did it.
Somebody scoffed: Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one has ever done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.
By Edgar A. Guest: Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest (1934), page 285
Edgar Albert ‘Eddie’ Guest was born on 20 August 1881 in Birmingham, England. He immigrated with his family to the United States of America in 1891. From his first published work in the “Detroit Free Press” until his passing in 1959, he penned some 11,000 poems that were syndicated in 300 newspapers and collected into more than twenty books. Mr. Guest is reputed to have had a new poem published in a newspaper every day for more than thirty years. He became known as ‘The People’s Poet,’ writing poems that were of a sentimental and optimistic nature. Edgar Albert ‘Eddie’ Guest passed on at 77 years of age on 5 August 1959 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.
A Teddy Bear’s Guide To Life
Be quiet and understanding.
Stay soft and warm.
Be there to absorb the tears.
Make life more bearable.
Be charming and irresistible.
Take opportunities to paws and reflect.
Provide a sympathetic ear.
Muzzle your temper.
Stroll barefoot in the park.
Console and comfort others.
Always be ready to play.
Be available to cushion the hard lumps in life.
Provide unconditional love.
Never miss an opportunity to hug.
Love the simple things in life.
Provide a loving atmosphere in your home.
Never betray a confidence.
Curl up with children for a bedtime story.
Be gentle.
Avoid garage sales - you might get sold!
When thing get grizzly, grin and bear it.
Be everyone’s best friend.
Be unbearably cute and cuddly.
Take every opportunity for a nap.
Invite all your friends to a picnic.
Be humble and polite.
Take a honey break daily.
Bear in mind that silence is often the best answer.
Provide warm fuzzies for all.
Fill an empty spot in someone’s heart.
Don’t be overbearing.
Cheer up a lonely person.
Remember, love bears all things.
Always be faithful and true.
By Author Unknown
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Be quiet and understanding.
Stay soft and warm.
Be there to absorb the tears.
Make life more bearable.
Be charming and irresistible.
Take opportunities to paws and reflect.
Provide a sympathetic ear.
Muzzle your temper.
Stroll barefoot in the park.
Console and comfort others.
Always be ready to play.
Be available to cushion the hard lumps in life.
Provide unconditional love.
Never miss an opportunity to hug.
Love the simple things in life.
Provide a loving atmosphere in your home.
Never betray a confidence.
Curl up with children for a bedtime story.
Be gentle.
Avoid garage sales - you might get sold!
When thing get grizzly, grin and bear it.
Be everyone’s best friend.
Be unbearably cute and cuddly.
Take every opportunity for a nap.
Invite all your friends to a picnic.
Be humble and polite.
Take a honey break daily.
Bear in mind that silence is often the best answer.
Provide warm fuzzies for all.
Fill an empty spot in someone’s heart.
Don’t be overbearing.
Cheer up a lonely person.
Remember, love bears all things.
Always be faithful and true.
By Author Unknown
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The Joy Of Doing
The secret of happiness is in knowing this: that we live by the law of expenditure. We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. There are tides in the ocean of life, and what comes in depends on what goes out. The currents flow inward only where there is an outlet. Nature does not give to those who will not spend; her gifts are loaned to those who will use them. Empty your lungs and breathe. Run, climb, work, and laugh; the more you give out, the more you shall receive. Be exhausted, and you shall be fed. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
By Raymond John Baughan: “Undiscovered Country” (1946)
Raymond John Baughan, Junior was born on 19 June 1912 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States of America. He was married to Mildred E. Thayer. He served as a minister in the Unitarian Universalist Church for 42 years, and a was a writer. Among his published books is “If the Shoe Fits” (1992). Raymond John Baughan, Junior passed on at 80 years of age on 15 February 1993 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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By Raymond John Baughan: “Undiscovered Country” (1946)
Raymond John Baughan, Junior was born on 19 June 1912 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States of America. He was married to Mildred E. Thayer. He served as a minister in the Unitarian Universalist Church for 42 years, and a was a writer. Among his published books is “If the Shoe Fits” (1992). Raymond John Baughan, Junior passed on at 80 years of age on 15 February 1993 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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Believe In Yourself
Dream Freely
Envision Excellence
Exude Enthusiasm
Be Inspired
Inspire Others
Take Pride in You
Recognize Inner Beauty
Draw on Inner Strength
Look Inside Your Soul
Create Peace
Seek Truth
Spread Joy
Embark on Adventure
Launch New Ideas
Think Big
Invoke Positives
Live Fully
Reach Out
Aim High
Find Happiness
Expect the Best
Be the Best
By Jan Michelsen
Dream Freely
Envision Excellence
Exude Enthusiasm
Be Inspired
Inspire Others
Take Pride in You
Recognize Inner Beauty
Draw on Inner Strength
Look Inside Your Soul
Create Peace
Seek Truth
Spread Joy
Embark on Adventure
Launch New Ideas
Think Big
Invoke Positives
Live Fully
Reach Out
Aim High
Find Happiness
Expect the Best
Be the Best
By Jan Michelsen
Nothing To Fear
There’s nothing to fear - you’re as good as the best,
As strong as the mightiest, too.
You can win in every battle or test;
For there’s no one just like you.
There’s only one you in the world today;
So nobody else, you see,
Can do your work in as fine a way:
You’re the only you there’ll be!
So face the world, and all life is yours
To conquer and love and live:
And you’ll find the happiness that endures
In just the measure you give;
There’s nothing too good for you to possess,
Nor heights where you cannot go:
Your power is more than belief or guess -
It is something you have to know.
There is nothing to fear - you can and you will.
For you are the invincible you.
Set your foot on the highest hill -
There’s nothing you cannot do.
By Author Unknown
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There’s nothing to fear - you’re as good as the best,
As strong as the mightiest, too.
You can win in every battle or test;
For there’s no one just like you.
There’s only one you in the world today;
So nobody else, you see,
Can do your work in as fine a way:
You’re the only you there’ll be!
So face the world, and all life is yours
To conquer and love and live:
And you’ll find the happiness that endures
In just the measure you give;
There’s nothing too good for you to possess,
Nor heights where you cannot go:
Your power is more than belief or guess -
It is something you have to know.
There is nothing to fear - you can and you will.
For you are the invincible you.
Set your foot on the highest hill -
There’s nothing you cannot do.
By Author Unknown
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How To Improve Yourself
Let each man learn to know himself;
To gain that knowledge let him labor
To improve those failings in himself
Which he condemns so in his neighbor.
How lenient our own faults we view,
And conscience’s voice adeptly smother;
Yet, oh, how harshly we review
The selfsame failings in another!
And if you meet an erring one
Whose deeds are blamable and thoughtless,
Consider, ere you cast the stone,
If you yourself are pure and faultless.
Oh, list to that small voice within,
Whose whisperings oft make men confounded,
And trumpet not another’s sin;
You’d blush deep if your own were sounded.
And in self-judgment if you find
Your deeds to others are superior,
To you has Providence been kind,
As you should be to those inferior.
Example sheds a genial ray
Of light which men are apt to borrow;
So first improve yourself today
And then improve your friends tomorrow.
By Author Unknown
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Let each man learn to know himself;
To gain that knowledge let him labor
To improve those failings in himself
Which he condemns so in his neighbor.
How lenient our own faults we view,
And conscience’s voice adeptly smother;
Yet, oh, how harshly we review
The selfsame failings in another!
And if you meet an erring one
Whose deeds are blamable and thoughtless,
Consider, ere you cast the stone,
If you yourself are pure and faultless.
Oh, list to that small voice within,
Whose whisperings oft make men confounded,
And trumpet not another’s sin;
You’d blush deep if your own were sounded.
And in self-judgment if you find
Your deeds to others are superior,
To you has Providence been kind,
As you should be to those inferior.
Example sheds a genial ray
Of light which men are apt to borrow;
So first improve yourself today
And then improve your friends tomorrow.
By Author Unknown
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Have A Good Day
Tell a joke,
Or say a prayer.
Take time out
To take good care.
Draw a bath.
Light a candle.
There is nothing
You can’t handle.
Close your eyes.
Dream a dream.
Change your horses
In midstream.
Cry a little.
Laugh a lot.
Hold a hand.
Hold that thought.
Tell your feelings
They’re okay.
Let your soul
Come out and play.
You are you.
You are free.
Be who only
You can be!
By Author Unknown
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Tell a joke,
Or say a prayer.
Take time out
To take good care.
Draw a bath.
Light a candle.
There is nothing
You can’t handle.
Close your eyes.
Dream a dream.
Change your horses
In midstream.
Cry a little.
Laugh a lot.
Hold a hand.
Hold that thought.
Tell your feelings
They’re okay.
Let your soul
Come out and play.
You are you.
You are free.
Be who only
You can be!
By Author Unknown
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The Fighter
I fight a battle every day
Against discouragement and fear;
Some foe stands always in my way,
The path ahead is never clear!
I must forever be on guard
Against the doubts that skulk along;
I get ahead by fighting hard,
But fighting keeps my spirit strong.
I hear the croakings of Despair,
The dark predictions of the weak;
I find myself pursued by Care,
No matter what the end I seek;
My victories are small and few,
It matters not how hard I strive;
Each day the fight begins anew,
But fighting keeps my hopes alive.
My dreams are spoiled by circumstance,
My plans are wrecked by Fate or Luck;
Some hour, perhaps, will bring my chance,
But that great hour has never struck;
My progress has been slow and hard,
I’ve had to climb and crawl and swim,
Fighting for every stubborn yard,
But I have kept in fighting trim.
I have to fight my doubts away,
And be on guard against my fears;
The feeble croaking of Dismay
Has been familiar through the years;
My dearest plans keep going wrong,
Events combine to thwart my will,
But fighting keeps my spirit strong,
And I am undefeated still!
By S. E. Kiser
Samuel Ellsworth Kiser, also known as S. E. Kiser, was born on 2 February 1862 in Shippenville, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He was married to Mildred M. Palmer in Cleveland, Ohio, where he also started his career as a newspaperman. He became a writer, an editor, and a poet. From 1900 to 1914, he was an editorial and special writer for the Chicago “Record-Herald,” the paper in which his regular column “Whimwhams and Sentiment” appeared (‘whimwhams’ meaning ‘oddities’). He made regular written contributions to “Harper’s Magazine” and was the author of the children’s storybook, “The Happy Duck-Lucks” (1911). Much of his writing and poetry was either whimsical or inspirational in nature. He designed and built the world’s first wastebasket basketball hoop. Samuel Ellsworth Kiser passed on at 79 years of age on 30 January 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.
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I fight a battle every day
Against discouragement and fear;
Some foe stands always in my way,
The path ahead is never clear!
I must forever be on guard
Against the doubts that skulk along;
I get ahead by fighting hard,
But fighting keeps my spirit strong.
I hear the croakings of Despair,
The dark predictions of the weak;
I find myself pursued by Care,
No matter what the end I seek;
My victories are small and few,
It matters not how hard I strive;
Each day the fight begins anew,
But fighting keeps my hopes alive.
My dreams are spoiled by circumstance,
My plans are wrecked by Fate or Luck;
Some hour, perhaps, will bring my chance,
But that great hour has never struck;
My progress has been slow and hard,
I’ve had to climb and crawl and swim,
Fighting for every stubborn yard,
But I have kept in fighting trim.
I have to fight my doubts away,
And be on guard against my fears;
The feeble croaking of Dismay
Has been familiar through the years;
My dearest plans keep going wrong,
Events combine to thwart my will,
But fighting keeps my spirit strong,
And I am undefeated still!
By S. E. Kiser
Samuel Ellsworth Kiser, also known as S. E. Kiser, was born on 2 February 1862 in Shippenville, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He was married to Mildred M. Palmer in Cleveland, Ohio, where he also started his career as a newspaperman. He became a writer, an editor, and a poet. From 1900 to 1914, he was an editorial and special writer for the Chicago “Record-Herald,” the paper in which his regular column “Whimwhams and Sentiment” appeared (‘whimwhams’ meaning ‘oddities’). He made regular written contributions to “Harper’s Magazine” and was the author of the children’s storybook, “The Happy Duck-Lucks” (1911). Much of his writing and poetry was either whimsical or inspirational in nature. He designed and built the world’s first wastebasket basketball hoop. Samuel Ellsworth Kiser passed on at 79 years of age on 30 January 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.
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