One of the greatest challenges we face
is how to use our emotions as a key
for attaining success in life,
so learn to understand your emotions,
and then master them.

the three things that we desire most in life,
happiness, freedom, and peace of mind,
can be obtained by giving them
to someone else and know that happiness
is not in our circumstances
but in ourselves..

choose to have enough happiness
to make you sweet, enough trials
to make you strong, enough sorrow
to keep you human and enough hope
to make you happy and do what
makes you happiest knowing that
if you look to others for fulfillment
you will never be fulfilled.

imagine that every person in the world
is enlightened but you and that they
are all your teachers, each doing
just the right thing to help you learn
perfect patience,, perfect wisdom,
perfect compassion, as you learn
that the secret of happiness is the
realization that life is a gift,
not a right.                                 Jon York          2013