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🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸“She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cosy bed, and to love and be loved in return.” 🌸🌿🌸

🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼”A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset. When you wake up, take a second to think about what a privilege it is to simply be alive and healthy. The moment you start acting like life is a blessing, I assure you it will start to feel like one.”🌼🌿

🐻🌿🐻🌿🐻”When you’re barely holding on, hold onto a bear. Never underestimate the power of an old fashioned bear hug to make you feel a hundred times better.”🐻

🩵🌿🩵🌿🩵”We all have scars. It’s when you are honest about them that you find the people who will love you, in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don’t? Those people aren’t the ones for you.”🩵🌿🩵🌿🩵

🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼“Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, ‘I have fallen, but I will get up.’🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼

🌟🌿🌟🌿🌟“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”🌟🌿🌟🌿🌟

HOLLYWOOD- Can you believe it was 47 years ago that Elvis Presley died, on August 16, 1977. I’m almost 100 percent sure that if you are of a certain age, you remember exactly where you were on that tragic day when you heard the news. So many decades have passed yet he is just asContinue reading “Elvis Remembered!”

🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸”A day is not lost if you failed to tick off a list, or a diet was broken.A day is only lost if you forgot to say something kind to yourself, or another.If you forgot to pause and search for a tiny spark of beauty amongst the drudgery, glimmering like gold in the mud.A dayContinue reading “A gift!”

🌷🌿🌷🌿🌷“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful forContinue reading “Beautiful!”

🍓🌿🍓🌿🍓”Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they’ll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields… and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?”🍓🌿🍓🌿🍓