I wish you enough!!
Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.
Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, 'I love you, and I wish you enough.'
The daughter replied, 'Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom.'
They kissed and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy, but she welcomed me in by asking, 'Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?'
'Yes, I have,' I replied. 'Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?'.
'I am old, and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral,' she said.
'When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough.' May I ask what that means?'
She began to smile. 'That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.' She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and she smiled even more. 'When we said, 'I wish you enough,' we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them.' Then turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were reciting it from memory.
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.
She then began to cry and walked away.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them; but then an entire life to forget them.
* Only if you wish send this to the people you will never forget and remember to send it back to the person who sent it to you. If you don't send it to anyone it may mean that you are in such a hurry that you have forgotten your friends.
TAKE TIME TO LIVE.....
To all my friends and loved ones, I WISH YOU ENOUGH.
Saturday 24 January 2009
10 Good Quotes
10 Good Quotes
===============
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
~John Junor~
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
~Robert A. Humphrey~
Annual income twenty pounds,
annual expenditure nineteen point six,
result happiness.
~Charles Dickens (1812-1870)~
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain
and most fools do.
~Dale Carnegie~
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be
silly.
~Rose Franken~
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
~Proverbs 23:7~
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits
is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
~Bob Inglis~
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
~Bette Davis~
Conversation would be vastly improved
by the constant use of four simple words:
" I do not know."
~Andre Maurois~
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
~Lucretius~
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.
~Anonymous~
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;
serenity, that nothing is.
~Thomas Szasz~
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~Kin Hubbard~
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
~Samuel Paterson~
Count your blessings, they are more than you think,
and more than you are told.
===============
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
~John Junor~
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
~Robert A. Humphrey~
Annual income twenty pounds,
annual expenditure nineteen point six,
result happiness.
~Charles Dickens (1812-1870)~
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain
and most fools do.
~Dale Carnegie~
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be
silly.
~Rose Franken~
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
~Proverbs 23:7~
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits
is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
~Bob Inglis~
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
~Bette Davis~
Conversation would be vastly improved
by the constant use of four simple words:
" I do not know."
~Andre Maurois~
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
~Lucretius~
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.
~Anonymous~
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;
serenity, that nothing is.
~Thomas Szasz~
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~Kin Hubbard~
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
~Samuel Paterson~
Count your blessings, they are more than you think,
and more than you are told.
The Movie Encyclopedia
The Movie Encyclopedia
=======================
There are some things in life that you would never know if it
weren't for Hollywood.
A great movie – "The Family Man"
Every married man with kids should see this.
Without The Movies you wouldn't know this:
** During all police investigations, it will be necessary to
visit a strip club at least once.
** When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak
English to each other.
** If being chased through town, you can usually take cover
in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of year.
** All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach
up to the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level
on the man lying beside her.
** The Chief of Police will almost always suspend his star
detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.
** All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French
Bread.
** It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is
someone to talk you down.
** The ventilation system of any building is the perfect
hiding place - no one will ever think of looking for you in
there and you can travel to any other part of the building
undetected.
** Police departments give their officers personality tests to
make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is
their polar opposite.
** The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
** All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with
large red readouts so you know exactly when they are going
to go off.
** If you need to reload your gun, you will always have
more ammunition, even if you haven't been carrying any
before now.
** You are very likely to survive any battle in any war
unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture
of your sweetheart back home.
** Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer,
it will not be necessary to speak the language - a German
accent will do.
** If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster
or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist
trade or his forthcoming art exhibition.
** A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious
beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his
wounds.
** When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you
take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It
will always be the exact fare.
** Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a
kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that
light instead.
=======================
There are some things in life that you would never know if it
weren't for Hollywood.
A great movie – "The Family Man"
Every married man with kids should see this.
Without The Movies you wouldn't know this:
** During all police investigations, it will be necessary to
visit a strip club at least once.
** When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak
English to each other.
** If being chased through town, you can usually take cover
in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of year.
** All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach
up to the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level
on the man lying beside her.
** The Chief of Police will almost always suspend his star
detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.
** All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French
Bread.
** It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is
someone to talk you down.
** The ventilation system of any building is the perfect
hiding place - no one will ever think of looking for you in
there and you can travel to any other part of the building
undetected.
** Police departments give their officers personality tests to
make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is
their polar opposite.
** The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
** All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with
large red readouts so you know exactly when they are going
to go off.
** If you need to reload your gun, you will always have
more ammunition, even if you haven't been carrying any
before now.
** You are very likely to survive any battle in any war
unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture
of your sweetheart back home.
** Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer,
it will not be necessary to speak the language - a German
accent will do.
** If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster
or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist
trade or his forthcoming art exhibition.
** A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious
beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his
wounds.
** When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you
take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It
will always be the exact fare.
** Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a
kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that
light instead.
Baby Pigeons?
Baby Pigeons?
==============
Have you ever wondered why you don't see baby pigeons?
Have you ever wondered why pigeons spend so much time walking
when they could be flying?
Some of US spend so much time walking when we could be flying.
This is why you don't see Baby pigeons -
First of all, unlike other birds, pigeons hide their nests.
When they emerged in Asia, pigeons were cliff-dwellers. Now
they build their messy nests of sticks inside the guts of
bridges, or atop tall buildings, or on top of your air
conditioner.
Also, pigeons are very protective and babying parents. They lay
only two eggs at a time, and spoil those babies shamefully. By
the time they leave the nest, the babies are almost the same
size as their parents.
That's why you don't see baby pigeons.
The parents spoil the kids by keeping them sheltered and inside
away from the world until they are almost grown.
Is it any wonder why they fly as little as possible?
Think about that the next time you see a pigeon,
a big one walking.
~A MountainWings Original~
==============
Have you ever wondered why you don't see baby pigeons?
Have you ever wondered why pigeons spend so much time walking
when they could be flying?
Some of US spend so much time walking when we could be flying.
This is why you don't see Baby pigeons -
First of all, unlike other birds, pigeons hide their nests.
When they emerged in Asia, pigeons were cliff-dwellers. Now
they build their messy nests of sticks inside the guts of
bridges, or atop tall buildings, or on top of your air
conditioner.
Also, pigeons are very protective and babying parents. They lay
only two eggs at a time, and spoil those babies shamefully. By
the time they leave the nest, the babies are almost the same
size as their parents.
That's why you don't see baby pigeons.
The parents spoil the kids by keeping them sheltered and inside
away from the world until they are almost grown.
Is it any wonder why they fly as little as possible?
Think about that the next time you see a pigeon,
a big one walking.
~A MountainWings Original~
CLOSET SPACE
CLOSET SPACE
=============
Is your closet too crowded?
Perhaps the single greatest indicator of the overload that we
have in life are closets.
They are packed.
It doesn't matter how big our closets are.
Sooner or later we fill them up.
Why?
There is a closet rule of life that states:
1. Clothes expand to fill all available closet space
2. Sooner or later if you keep getting more clothes
you either have to:
A. Get more closet space
B. Get rid of some clothes
2B is what we hate to do.
But if we are TO BE what we are TO BE,
we need to learn the rule of 2B and get rid of some clothes.
Time is like closet space. We have a limited amount of it.
We keep putting more and more things in until our time is
cluttered.
The more cluttered it gets, the more things are out of place.
The time that we should be sleeping, we've got something else in
that space.
The time that we should be spending with family, we've got
something else in that space.
The time that we should have to ourselves to do whatever we do
to help our spirit, we've got something else in that space.
Even as our closet hinges strain to keep from bursting, we still
try to put more stuff in.
Take a look around your closet of time right now.
How much has accumulated
that you should have gotten rid of long ago.
They still may be good clothes, but your closet is just too full.
We have habits that we formed in our teenage years
that should have long ago been removed from our closets.
Some even have friends that should have long ago been removed,
for they no longer fit our style or destination.
As you change and grow, you should change what's in your closet.
Maybe we don't need more stuff in the closet.
Maybe we don't need a bigger closet.
Maybe we just need to clean out some stuff
and not with the purpose to make room for more stuff.
We may just need some space,
In a lot of areas,
For a lot of reasons.
There is a spiritual saying
that tells you to go into your closet to pray.
For many of us, there's simply no room.
Go look at your bedroom closet right now.
Chances are, it will reflect your closet of time.
~A MountainWings Original~
Thank you for inviting MountainWings in your mailbox.
See you tomorrow.
Forward this issue to a friend or send them the link below:
http://www.mountainwings.com/past/1038.htm
=============
Is your closet too crowded?
Perhaps the single greatest indicator of the overload that we
have in life are closets.
They are packed.
It doesn't matter how big our closets are.
Sooner or later we fill them up.
Why?
There is a closet rule of life that states:
1. Clothes expand to fill all available closet space
2. Sooner or later if you keep getting more clothes
you either have to:
A. Get more closet space
B. Get rid of some clothes
2B is what we hate to do.
But if we are TO BE what we are TO BE,
we need to learn the rule of 2B and get rid of some clothes.
Time is like closet space. We have a limited amount of it.
We keep putting more and more things in until our time is
cluttered.
The more cluttered it gets, the more things are out of place.
The time that we should be sleeping, we've got something else in
that space.
The time that we should be spending with family, we've got
something else in that space.
The time that we should have to ourselves to do whatever we do
to help our spirit, we've got something else in that space.
Even as our closet hinges strain to keep from bursting, we still
try to put more stuff in.
Take a look around your closet of time right now.
How much has accumulated
that you should have gotten rid of long ago.
They still may be good clothes, but your closet is just too full.
We have habits that we formed in our teenage years
that should have long ago been removed from our closets.
Some even have friends that should have long ago been removed,
for they no longer fit our style or destination.
As you change and grow, you should change what's in your closet.
Maybe we don't need more stuff in the closet.
Maybe we don't need a bigger closet.
Maybe we just need to clean out some stuff
and not with the purpose to make room for more stuff.
We may just need some space,
In a lot of areas,
For a lot of reasons.
There is a spiritual saying
that tells you to go into your closet to pray.
For many of us, there's simply no room.
Go look at your bedroom closet right now.
Chances are, it will reflect your closet of time.
~A MountainWings Original~
Thank you for inviting MountainWings in your mailbox.
See you tomorrow.
Forward this issue to a friend or send them the link below:
http://www.mountainwings.com/past/1038.htm
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