Happiness is an attitude.

The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. "I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. "Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room .... just wait." "That doesn't have anything to do with it," she replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it ... It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away ... just for this time in my life." From http://www.parablesite.com/

Guy Finley: Follow This Spiritual Chart All the Way to Higher Consciousness http://www.guyfinley.org/free-content/writings/special-lessons/5898

When something disturbing happens, just wait a moment before you explode. Quietly realize the presence of God and say, "Peace." Know that you are in the presence of divine wisdom and power, and you will be shown what to do without losing your poise and peace. If you become angry, remember it is because you have forgotten that God is peace. If you are worried, it is an admission that you have forgotten that you have placed your affairs in God's hands. If you are jealous, it is because you have forgotten that God supplies you with all that you are able to receive and use. If your feelings are hurt, it is because you have forgotten that God is love. If you are discouraged, it is because you have forgotten that God can do all things. If you are sick, it is because you have forgotten that God is your health. Do not try to use God's power to make things happen. Do not try to exercise your faith in God in order to make anyone do what you think is best for him. Use your faith to know that God is working in perfect love in the affairs of those you have in mind and that only good can come into their life. God's blessings include health, happiness, prosperity, but remember that you should not try to force any of these blessings upon unwilling recipients. Even God does not do this. Do not pray that your friend shall go to some particular church or do some other thing that you think is right and proper for him to do. Put your friends and yourself in the keeping of divine law, and stop worrying. New Ways to Solve Old Problems 1938

Lowell Page Fillmore (named for James Russel Lowell) and his brother

Waldo Rickert Fillmore (named for Ralph Waldo Emerson) were both born in Pueblo Colorado

A Creed for Those Who Have Suffered:
I asked God for strength that I might achieve...
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things...
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy...
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men...
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life...
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for...
but everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am among all men most richly blessed.
—Unknown Confederate soldier (c. 1862, United States)

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