Trust Yourself

Mother's Day

A Celebration In Honor of All Mothers

... is for the million things she gave me,

... means only that she's growing old,... is for the tears she shed to save me,

... is for her heart of purest gold;

... is for her eyes, with love-light shining,

... means right, and right she'll always be.

 

 

The first celebrations in honour of mothers were held in the spring in ancient Greece. They paid tribute to Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 17th century, England honored mothers on "Mothering Sunday," celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent.

In the United States, Julia Ward Howe suggested the idea of Mother's Day in 1872. Howe, who wrote the words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, saw Mother's Day as being dedicated to peace.

Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia is credited with bringing about the official observance of Mother's Day. Her campaign to establish such a holiday began as a remembrance of her mother, who died in 1905 and who had, in the late 19th century, tried to establish "Mother's Friendship Days" as a way to heal the scars of the Civil War.

Two years after her mother died, Jarvis held a ceremony in Grafton, W. Va., to honor her. She was so moved by the proceedings that she began a massive campaign to adopt a formal holiday honoring mothers. In 1910, West Virginia became the first state to recognize Mother's Day. A year later, nearly every state officially marked the day. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed Mother's Day as a national holiday to be held on the second Sunday of May.

 

A Way of Life

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." – Bruce Lee
"Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent." – Carl Sandburg
"I get knocked down. But I get up again. You’re never going to keep me down." – Chumbawamba
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time." – Elbert Green Hubbard
"When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived." -Henry David Thoreau
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose– a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." – Mary Shelley
"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results." – Tony Robbins
"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It’s great to be great, but its greater to be human." – Will Rogers
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." – William B. Sprague 
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." – Bruce Lee  

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." – Bruce Lee

"Real living is living for others." – Bruce Lee 

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it." – Bruce Lee

"Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." – Zig Ziglar 

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness." – Martin Luther King Jr.  

Reach the goal

 A positive outlook is so important when you're trying to reach your goals. If you can clearly see your goal and that it’s within your grasp, there’s nothing stopping you!

 

Peaceful Thoughts

Human Emotions

There is a huge list of human emotions that we are capable of experiencing. However often times we only experience a very limited number of emotions.

It is always the same few ; happiness, anger, love, confidence, anxiety, stress, relaxed. Ask people what emotions do they experience in a week and they'll invariably say those common emotions.

The more type of emotions we feel, the more colorful our life experience will be. It is not that we can't experience a wide array of emotions, rather it is because we often label different emotions into a common group like happy or sad that we forget to experience that emotion for what it is.

Take happy. There is happy, ecstatic, cheerful, relax, exited, exhilarated etc. All those emotions are unique in their own way but we usually label it as happy. By doing that we unintentionally take away it's characteristics and thus take away our experience. 

Postive Human Emotions

Adequate	Awe	Assured	Able
Capable	Certain	Charmed	Cheerful
Comfortable	Compassion	Courageous	Confidence
Determined	Delighted	Eager	Energetic
Enthusiastic	Excited	Exhilarated	Expectant
Elation	Empathy	Excellent	Fascinated
Glad	Good	Great	Grateful
Glorious	Glamorous	Graceful	Happy
Hopeful	Humorous	Inspired	Interested
Joyful	Magnificent	Lust	Love
Pleasure	Playfulness	Peaceful	Pleasant
Powerful	Pride	Positive	Relaxed
Relieved	Satisfied	Surprised	Sympathy
Stable	Sublime	Superior	Thrilled

Negative human emotions

Annoyed	Anxious	Apprehensive	Agonize
Anger	Anxiety	Apathy	Bored
Burdened	Cautious	Competitive	Concerned
Confused	Contempt	Depressed	Destructive
Disgusted	Distracted	Doubtful	Disappointed
Exasperated	Exhausted	Embarrassment	Envy
Frustrated	Fear	Guilty	Greed
Grief	Harassed	Hesitant	Hostile
Ignored	Impatient	Indifferent	Intimidated
Isolated	Irritated	Jealous	Jumpy
Lonely	Mad	Manipulated	Miserable
Obnoxious	Overwhelmed	Panic	Pressured
Remorse	Revenge	Shame	Sad
Scared	Shocked	Suspicious	Stress
Tired	Uncomfortable	Uneasy	Used
Wary	Weary	Wasteful

Always remember that there are so many types of emotions out there. Come back to this list of human emotions frequently and check how many did you experience. A life filled with emotions is a rich life.

Now go out there and enjoy every experience you have.