Daily Jots

As the holiday season approaches, I find myself thinking more and more about the topic of… happiness and what it means.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur ever day
Benjamen Franklin

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

What’s the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
George Asaf

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If only we could remember some of these quotes when we need them most, our lives would be a lot more satisfying! Don’t you think??

It’s funny how you can go through 11 months of the year, but the minute that December arrives (or nearly) you entire way of thinking changes. I went looking for some quotes about the season and thought that I would share some of the best…

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
Edna Ferber

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
Dr. Seuss

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

I think that if I had to pick just one, it would have to be the words of Erma Bombeck. This Christmas morning, I do want to wake up with all the excitement I remember as a kid. I don’t think that I ever slept on Christmas Eve. I was just like that little kid on that Disney commericial who is just so excited about going to Disney World that he simply can’t sleep!

The $175.00 The Christmas Almanac

Not being the cook in the family, I wouldn’t know where to start if someone suggested that I cook dinner. At least with my family, they would know what to expect and probably all bring a dish that would lend to a Pot Luck style of Thanksgiving. But I was doing a bit of searching around for advice and found this page. That very question was posed to a lot of celebrity cooks and they all had some great advice to offer.

My favorite has to be…
Invite mom over.
George Duran

lol… but just in case you can’t hand all the planning/cooking over to mom, there is still a lot of advice waiting to be shared over at The Food Network.

It’s Sunday evening and my thoughts are turning to all things romance, so I thought that I would share some of the more memorable quotes on love that have passed my way!

Memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
Elizabeth Bowen

“Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.”
Judith Viorst

I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Tennyson

“You don’t love a woman because she’s beautiful; she is beautiful because you love her.” - Anonymous

I guess it was this scent that started me thinking about the topic tonight so, I thought that I would go looking to see what I could find on the subject.

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Anonymous

While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls.
Anonymous

We should not forget to entertain strangers, lest we entertain angels unaware.
Hebrews 13:2

People are born to become angels.
Anonymous

Angels do find us in our hour of need. –Amy Huffman

Angel by Thierry Mugler for Women 1.7 oz Eau de Parfum Flacon Refill

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
- - -Jilly Cooper

I spent a long time looking for just the right quote for today, but none seemed to be perfect until I saw this one. I just love it.

and then I found more… :) Yes, I am craving coffee this morning!

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
Alphonse Allais

“Decaffeinated Coffee. It’s useless warm brown water.”
Heard on David Letterman

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
Honor de Balzac

“Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.” But did you know that Agatha Christie actually wrote a book entitled… Black Coffee!
Agatha Christie

I’ve never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me I say, ‘That’s none of your business’. So that means I’ve never once lied about my age. Now that’s true.

Calista Flockhart

You know, I have no idea how old she is and I never really thought about it until I read this quote. She can be whatever age she wants to be. Me, I think nothing about lying about my age. In fact I think that I have always stopped for about ten years on any number ending with a nine. It’s getting harder now though. The kids are old enough to catch on. Gone are the days when I could remain 29 indefinitely.

But whenever a birthday does roll around, they do stop and ask me just how old I am. I guess I’m doing something right lol…

It’s Great to be Old: Reasons to Stop Lying About Your Age

I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. ~Author Unknown

Well, no more needs to be said about that now does it!

There is music in the meadows, in the air–
Autumn is here;
Skies are gray, but hearts are mellow,

—William Stanley Braithwaite, (1878–1962)
“A Lyric of Autumn,” Lyrics of Life and Love (1904)

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