http://carydarling.com I Am Grateful For ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:43:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.- Mark Twain I don't know about you, but something I have been looking for all my life is acceptance, whether that has been from family, friends, lovers, co-workers, bosses, or more importantly myself. As I see more and more of my high school ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-self-acceptance/ The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  ~Honoré de Balzac This morning will probably be one of my most intimate, and darkest posts ever, because I am about share something I have been working on here lately. March 3 will ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-forgiveness/ Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature --if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you --know that the morning ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-mornings/ Love:  A Suggested Definition - The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose to be for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. -- Wayne Dyer, Your Erroneous Zones There isn't a single person out there who could accuse me of being ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-my-uniqueness/ If a man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us!  The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. -- The Buddhist ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-death/ Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman Sometimes life propels you in the right direction, and sometimes it creates situations that force you to get up off your ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-direction/ A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.  ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-books/ “Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” Never have truer words been spoken than in today's quote.  I see daily examples in my life how this ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-insight-2/ God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr Tuesday morning a situation arose in my life which at first seemed to be something horrible, but as it progressed, I ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-cathartic-moments/ “Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.” Everyone needs a Teri in their life.   One of those quiet unassuming friends who day by day makes subtle changes to their life that amount to huge progress the likes that most ... http://carydarling.com/i-am-grateful-for-a-teri/