"If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat,
writing a symphony, educating his child, growing double dahlias or
looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had rolled under the radiator, striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day."

W. Beran Wolfe, 1900-1935
Author and Psychiatrist

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"Why, then have to be human?
 Oh, not because happiness exists,
 Nor out of curiosity...
 But because being here means so much;
 Because everything here,
 Vanishing so quickly, seems to need us,
 And strangely keeps calling to us...  To have been
 Here once, completely, even if only once,
 To have been at one with the earth -
 This is beyond undoing."

 Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926
 German Author and Poet

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"I remember when I was a child
 and I was angry with my parents
 In my rage I would say that
 'I didn't ask to be born...'
 and here so many years later
 what a surprise to discover
 that yes, indeed, I did ask to be born...
 In fact it was very important to me
 that I be here...
 if only for a short while."     -- RA

 Wishing you a BEAUTIFUL week - and the peace and happiness that comes
 from knowing that we belong here.

 Ron Atchison
 Inspiration Peak          http://www.inspirationpeak.com

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Remember This One?

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be
happy."

Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918
French Poet