The Spirit of Happiness

22/10/2024

10/10/2024

08/10/2024

Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Don't leave anything for later.
Later, the coffee gets cold.
Later, you lose interest.
Later, the day turns into night.
Later, people grow up.
Later, people grow old.
Later, life goes by.
Later, you regret not doing something...
When you had the chance.

Life is a fleeting dance, a delicate balance of moments that unfold before us, never to return in quite the same way again.

Regret is a bitter pill to swallow, a weight that bears down upon the soul with the burden of missed chances and unspoken words.

So, let us not leave anything for later. Let us seize the moments as they come, with hearts open and arms outstretched to embrace the possibilities that lie before us. For in the end, it is not the things we did that we regret, but the things we left undone, the words left unspoken, the dreams left unfulfilled.

📸 Photographer unknown

29/09/2024

🎸Great Musicians🎸 ChrisMartin & Ed Sheeran 👏👏👏

13/09/2024

Male Bluehead Chubs construct these pyramid nests in swift moving water, and they can reach sizes up to two feet high and several feet wide, and are sometimes constructed in one day! From what I read, these hard-working fish may carry several thousand stones, over 20 yards or more to their nest site.

https://underthemagnifier.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/a-fish-that-carries-rocks-ii/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFRGW9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXutuZ7QHAWpkq6HQ7xE-D7c4NUeeHhs9stLnrf47Az_PZHadTBKqFrRiQ_aem_9PhEXsvCfPk24B3fb_WF_w #:~:text=Male%20Bluehead%20Chubs%20construct%20these,more%20to%20their%20nest%20site

05/09/2024

Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
It is not enough to just say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Words alone are worthless. "My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action." Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is "T-I-M-E.

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

26/08/2024

"The most wonderful fairy tale is life itself" - H. C. Andersen

26/08/2024

It’s cliche to say that children are our future, but it’s true. They’re going to inherit the earth that we leave them, and while we haven’t been great about taking care of the environment, we can teach our kids to be better.

The ocean is an incredibly important part of the environment. As the ocean goes, the earth goes. But, why should our children care about the ocean and protect it? We’ll tell you why it’s important we instill in our kids a conservation mindset.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmJvJ-0ncYE9xittIyHJVA?sub_confirmation=1 ...

06/07/2024

An epic version of "viva la vida"🙌

05/07/2024

"When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing.
In the same way, it is the philosophy of the Tao that we are all falling off a tree, at every moment of our lives. As a matter of fact, the moment we were born, we were kicked off a precipice, and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it.
So instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is impermanent, be like a cat."
~ Alan Watts

28/06/2024