Each breath....

....you take is an affirmation of your own existence... and of your own importance. Fortunately, you don't need a license to breathe. Nor is there a tax on this process - well, not yet anyway. It's about the one process in your life that nobody can boss you around over. So enjoy it. Allow yourself that luxury. And then, having granted yourself the right to do that much at least, look around at what else is happening.

You matter. You count. You have a right, at all times, to be heard... to be respected, to be proud of yourself.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

A little more...

....than 100 years ago, an amazing event took place amid the carnage of the First World War. At Christmas, British and German troops stopped shooting. They went over to each other's trenches and exchanged seasonal gifts. Some even sang carols and played football. The next day, they got back into their positions and continued with the carnage. Stories like this often leave us wondering whether to laugh or cry.



Through our choices and our actions, we can take what is bad and make it good.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up 

in order to exist at all.      (William Faulkner)

History is peppered....

....with tales of famous battles. Those who compile the chronicles, name the winners and the losers with great certainty. But that hardly does justice to the immense sense of loss suffered by either side whenever they incur so much as a single casualty. In war, there are no winners. Indeed, the outcome of any conflict can only involve stress and sorrow for every participant.

The only true victory is a compromise, one that allows all to feel as if they have won something. Something we should always remember.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.