Java Glory Vines

One of the meanings of "glory" is take great pride and pleasure in... so this entry I like to remind everyone to stop for a moment and recognize your accomplishments in life.

Sometimes the most fulfilling things we do  bring little recognition, yield no monetary profits, and come without fanfare... yet they can still mean a lot and be completely rewarding.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more - William Wordsworth -

What do you have to say for yourself?

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness -Flint-

What are some moments that defined your life?

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have - Eckhart Tolle -

How did you make yourself happy?

Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever - Peter Hagerty -

Have you spent time listening to yourself?

Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as they might or should be, but as they are, right now, in this moment. The hearts sees the now; the mind only sees the next. If you can't learn to see the now, you'll never see what's truly there, and then where will you be? - E. J. Patten -

Get to know yourself again, if you have unconsciously ignored you! Explore. Feel. Love.

Lemon Clover (Yellow Oxalis)

 A weed... an unloved flower.

Weeds are nature's graffiti  - Janice Maeditere -

 I love these tiny buttercup bublets.  I only noticed them once creeping along the sides of my garden. Only managed to take these few shots but I now have their snapshots of delicate beauty for keeps.

I learn more about God
From weeds than from roses
Resilience springing
Through the smallest chink of hope
In the absolute of concrete 
- Philip Pulfrey -

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Today is Easter Sunday in Malaysia and I was reading the history like I do for everything else, as often as I could, to remind myself of the magical old days. Historically, it is the arrival of spring and light, and the awakening of life around us. The renewal of each day is what we get to experience each morning, a new chance to be creative, a day to look forward to and be enthusiastic about, and to just celebrate life.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. - J. B. Priestley -

Thought of the day...

SMALL is the new big! 

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way - Napoleon Hill -

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies - Mother Teresa -

Great things are not done by impulse, but by series of small things brought together - George Eliot -