The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

Many people spend a lifetime on chasing happiness. We imagine, that if we get a new job, a new lover or a new car, then happiness awaits just around the corner.
But now a nurse shows us, that we have mistaken ideas about happiness.

According to Bronnie Ware happiness is not hidden behind expensive cars or a new job. She concludes that happiness for most people is right in front of us, if only we dare to pick it up.

For many years, nurse Bronnie Ware cared for people who were dying. During these years, she found, that the dying, surprisingly enough, all shared the same regrets.
Because of this, she made a list of the top five “regrets of the dying”, and published them in the book “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.”

TOP FIVE REGRETS OF THE DYING:

1: I wish I’d had the courage to be true to myself, and not just live up to others’ expectations of me.
– This is the most common among all regrets. Most people who look back on a long life realize, that they have not even met half of their dreams.

2: I wish I hadn’t worked that much.
– People deeply regret that they have spent so much time in the daily grind. For afterwards, they find they have been cheated out of both their children’s youth and their partner company, says Ware.

3: I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
– Many people suppress their feelings to avoid problems. As a result they have never outlived their full potential.
Many people are sick, because they have held back their entire life, says Bronnie Ware.

4: I wish I had kept in touch with my friends.
– Many do not consider how important friendships are, before time is running out. Everyone misses their friends the day they await death. Many regret they have not given their friendships the time and attention they deserved, while there was time, she said.

5: I wish that I had allowed myself be happier.
– Too many people discover, when it is too late, that happiness is a choice they make for themselves.
They are stuck in the old patterns and habits. Fear of change makes people delude themselves and others into thinking, that they are satisfied. But deep down they long for a good laugh, and to be silly, she says.

My regret would be no. 4. Time runs too fast, and before I know it, I haven’t seen friends for a longer time.
Since this is one of the top 5, I better take that one more serious than I do now.

For the rest, I’m fortunately very ok.
-Work a lot in periods, but always make sure, I can have my time off at other times.
-Live as I believe I should. Not according to what others think I should do.
-I express my feelings. Politely, but I express.
-And I allow myself to be as happy as I can be.

What about you?

Let it be

Beautiful description on how senseless it all is in time of war.

A bag of nails

 

Once upon a time there was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he should hammer a nail in the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. But gradually, the number of daily nails dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the first day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He proudly told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

“You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out, it won’t matter how many times you say, ‘I’m sorry’, the wound is still there.”

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The 7 Natural Laws of the Universe

The 7 Natural Laws of the Universe
The Law of Attraction is just part of one of the 7 natural laws of the Universe: the Law of Vibration. Of the 7 Laws, it may be the most important in how our everyday lives play out, but all of the laws are in effect whether we are aware of them or not. Knowing what the 7 laws are and how they work can make a significant difference in applying them to create the life you truly desire.

Quotes

A collection of “life laws” with one single purpose. To help reach the level of happiness we all dream about.

These quotes have been made into wallpapers and can be downloaded at will.

Visions of the future: Lifestyle (based on Star Trek)

Visions of the Future

Living longer, a joy or a burden?

Living longer…

There is no doubt that we will live longer. At least in the short-term.

Our Spirit, Our Soul and Our Universe

Read only if you have time for your spirit, your soul and your universe.

Make sure you read all the way to the bottom. I almost deleted this text when receiving this by e-mail, but I am blessed that I didn’t.
“The spirit, the soul and the universe”. When I received this e-mail, I thought…
I don’t have time… It will have to wait.
Then, I realized that this kind of thinking is… exactly, what has caused lot of the problems in our world today.

We try to ignore the spirit, the soul and the universe all week.
Those who believe in a God, try to keep him in church on Sunday morning…
Maybe, Sunday night… and, the unlikely event of a midweek service.
We do like to receive a miracle during sickness…
And, of course some needs a God at funerals.
However, we don’t have time, or room, for these things during work or play…
Because.. that’s the part of our lives we think… we can, and should, handle on our own.
May God, the universe or what ever you feel like calling it, forgive me for ever thinking..
that there is a time or place where, I can handle everything by my self.

We should always have time to remember everything this world has done for us.
If, you aren’t ashamed to do this, please follow the directions.
Pass this on ONLY IF YOU MEAN IT!!
Yes, I do Love my spirit, my soul and my universe.
It is my source of existence.
It keeps me functioning each and every day.

This is the simplest test.
If you love our precious universe… and, are not ashamed of all the marvelous things it has done for you…
Send this text to ten people!

Now do you have the time to pass it on?
Make sure that you scroll through to the end.

Easy vs. Hard
Why is it so hard to tell the truth, but yet so easy to tell a lie?
Why are we so sleepy when it comes to spiritual things, but we suddenly wake up when it comes to superficial things?
Why is it so easy to delete a spiritual e-mail, but yet we forward all of the nasty ones?
There are no costs, but wonderful rewards…

Notes: Isn’t it funny, how simple it is for people, to trash the soul and then wonder why the world’s going to hell.
Isn’t it funny, how someone can say “I’m a spiritual being”, but still act like it doesn’t make a difference.
Isn’t it funny, how you can send a thousand jokes through e-mail, and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the spiritual subjects, people think twice about sharing?
Isn’t it funny, how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list, because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.
Isn’t it funny, how you can be more worried about, what other people think of you, than what you think of yourself.

I pray, for everyone who sends this to their entire address book, and live consciously and openly with their heart and soul. They will be blessed in a way special for them.

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A beautiful way of living

To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give of one’s self;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived
This is to have succeeded.

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Quotes

An experience has no worth, if we learn nothing from it – Gitte Falkenberg

Almost anything is possible. But if you don’t believe it, you will never reach it – Gitte Falkenberg

Knowledge is nothing without usage ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

What u believe, will always be what u get ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

The present moment is really all we have. It is where our power is, to create the future ∼ Melinda M. Sorensson (Ecademy)

Life is great if u let it in ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

In life we must never settle ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

If you look, you will see it clearly ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Live by the heart. Not by the brain ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with the first step ∼ Chinese Proverb

Ethics seemed to be a subset of religious teachings, but in fact it is the otherway around ∼ Andrew Field (Ecademy member)

The only one that can walk ur path is u ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

The measure of success isn’t whether you have a tough problem, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year ∼ John Foster Dulles

If you don’t give yourself credit for all that’s good in your life, how can you expect yourself to create more? ∼ The Universe

If u listen u will always know ∼ PJ

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle ∼ Steve Jobs

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever ∼ Steve Jobs

Stay Hungry – Stay Foolish ∼ Steve Jobs

The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure ∼ Joseph Campbell

Its not the experience it self that defines us, but how we cope with it ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

If you use to much time considering your next step, you might end up standing on one leg for the rest of your life ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

The future can seem scary, but it’s really not. Having a future is a privilege ∼ Embrace it, Don’t waste it ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Our potential lies in our Compassion ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Once u realize that u r nothing, u realize that u r everything ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

U have to be in the now, to create your future ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Live, love and appreciate ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

You shape your destiny through the decisions you make ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself! ∼ ?

Eliminate your limiting beliefs! ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Be a PeaceMaker!!! ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up! ∼ Paul Valery

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped ∼ Tony Robbins

I will live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to ∼ Tony Robbins

There r those who r so compassionate, wise and loving, that the depth of their character completely escapes those who r new to time/space ∼ The Universe

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. ∼ Cherokee Proverb.

You create what you fear ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

What you fear you create ∼ Ray Blanchard

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them ∼ Walt Disney

You create your own feelings ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

You create your own experience. ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Learn to control your mental focus! ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Live with passion! ∼ Anthony Robbins

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results ∼ Tony Robbins

I know I was born, I know that I’ll die, the in between is mine… ∼ Pearl Jam

Stand tall. Your body language helps you acquire good feelings. ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way ∼ Wayne Dyer

The decision to change is instant ∼ the results are long∼term ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. ∼ Karen Horney

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned ∼ Peter Marshall

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do ∼ Benjamin Franklin

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change ∼ Wayne Dyer

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content ∼ Louis L’Amour

Make your life a mission. ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted ∼ Aesop

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be ∼ Unknown

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted ∼ Tony Robbins

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over… it became a butterfly ∼ Unknown

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection ∼ Mark Twain

You Will never Rise Above Your Own Self∼Image ∼ ?

Smile, even if you don’t feel like it. ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Passion motivates ∼ Anthony Robbins

Ask your self: What is most important in my life right now? Why ∼ Anthony Robbins

Ask your self: Who do I love the most right now? Why ∼ Anthony Robbins

Ask your self: What am I most proud? Why ∼ Anthony Robbins

Ask your self: What am I most grateful for? Why ∼ Anthony Robbins

Ask your self: What am I most passionate about in my life right now? Why ∼ Anthony Robbins

Ask your self: What am I most happy about in my life right now? Why ∼ Anthony Robbins

Ask your self: Are you your own best friend? ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Let go of your negative feelings ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Don’t deny your hurt feelings…. But let them go and find your peace ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Get the serenity 2 accept the things u can not change. Have the courage 2 change the things u can. And b wise enough to see the difference ∼ Unknown

Feelings are not “real”. They are reactions to your thoughts ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Quiet your mind ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Youth is not about years, but about attitude ∼ Unknown

Sing

Dance. Even if it’s by your self in your own living room

Know your core ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

ALWAYS stay true to your core ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Enjoy life

Awareness without action is worthless. ∼ Phillip C. McGraw

There’s always a way ∼ if you’re committed ∼ Anthony Robbins

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment ∼ Anthony Robbins

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life ∼ Anthony Robbins

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach ∼ Anthony Robbins

It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently ∼ Anthony Robbins

Only you can make your life into a masterpiece. ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent ∼ Anthony Robbins

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy ∼ Anthony Robbins

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided ∼ Anthony Robbins

Follow your dreams, Why not ∼ ?

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams ∼ Eleanor Roosevelt

Dreams will get you nowhere, unless you take action ∼ ?

What ever your life is YOU set it up that way ∼ Dr. Phil.

You teach people how to treat you ∼ Dr. Phil

Take care of you… You create your own Happiness ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Your relationship with your self determines your relationship with others ∼ Dr. Phil

Your relationships are dertamined by your lifestyle ∼ Dr. Phil

Test your assumptions. They might be wrong ∼ Dr. Phil

Sticks and Stones can break your Bones, but Words can hurt your Soul. ∼ Gitte Falkenberg

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahlil Gibran

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough ∼ Albert Einstein

The one who follows the crowd, will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to discover places no one has ever been before ∼ Alan Ashley∼Pitt

Not all who wander are lost ∼ J. R. R. Tolkien

You have two choices in life:
You can dissolve into the mainstream, or you can be distinct.
To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be ∼ Alan Ashley∼Pitt

The best way to predict the future is to invent it ∼ Alan Kay

You cannot teach a person anything. You can only help them find it within themselves ∼ Galileo

You must be the change you wish to see in the world ∼ Gandhi

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who is of no value to him ∼ Ann Landers

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions ∼ Tony Robbins

We do not learn from our experiences; we learn by reflecting on our experiences ∼ John Dewey

You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you ∼ James Allen, author

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience ∼ Thomas A. Edison

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood ∼ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored ∼ Aldous Huxley

The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination ∼ Julian Simon

Once people learn something, they’re reluctant to let it go ∼ Robert Easton

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field ∼ Niels Bohr

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn.
Whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go ∼ Richard David Bach

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, ‘I have failed three times,’ and what happens when he says, ‘I’m a failure ∼ S. I. Hayakawa

I got a fortune cookie that said, ‘To remember is to understand.’ I have never forgotten it.
A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child ∼ Anna Quindlen

As important as your past is related to your current performance, it is not nearly as important as how you see your future ∼ Denis Waitley

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing ∼ George Bernard Shaw

It is necessary for us to learn from others’ mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself ∼ Hyman Rickover

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything ∼ Bishop W. C. Magee

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure ∼ Colin Powell

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do, doesn’t mean it’s useless ∼ Thomas Edison

You will find as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love ∼ Henry Drummond

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future ∼ Marilyn Ferguson

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight ∼ Plato

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers ∼ Kahlil Gibran

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post ∼ L. Thomas Holdcroft

Life can be real rough . . . you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over ∼ Marie Osmond

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward ∼ Soren Kierkegaard

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience ∼ Archibald McLeish

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience ∼ Elbert Hubbard

The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything—and it works ∼ William Strong

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error ∼ Cicero

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others ∼ John Locke

Life is divided into three terms—that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future ∼ Wordsworth

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new ∼ Albert Einstein

Mistakes are the portals of discovery ∼ James Joyce

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best ∼ Spanish proverb

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me ∼ Chinese Proverb

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes ∼ Oscar Wilde

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. ∼ Chinese Proverb

 

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