A Creed to Live By

Don't undermine your worth by comparing
yourself with others,

It is because we are different that each
of us is special.

Don't set your goals by what other people
deem important,

Only you know what is best for you.

Don't take for granted the things closest
to your heart

Cling to that as you would your life, for without
them life is meaningless.

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living
in the past or the future.

By living your life one day at a time, you live all the
days of your life.

Don't give up when you still have something to give

Nothing is really over … until the moment
you stop trying.

Don't be afraid to admit that you are less
than perfect,

It is the fragile thread that binds us to each other.

Don't be afraid to encounter risks,

It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's
impossible to find.

The quickest way to receive love is to give love.

The fastest way to lose love is to hold on too tightly,

And the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Don't dismiss your Dreams. To be without
dreams is to be without hope.

To be without hope is to be without purpose.

Don't run through life so fast that you forget
where you've been,

But also know where you're going.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored
every step of the way.

Author Unknown

The art of Being Well

If you don’t want to be ill, …

SPEAK YOUR FEELINGS.

Emotions and feelings that are hidden, repressed, end in illness as: gastritis, ulcer, lumbar pains, spinal.

With time, the repression of feelings degenerates to cancer. Then, we go to a confidante to share our intimacy,

our secret, our errors! The dialogue, the speech, the word is a powerful remedy and excellent therapy!

If you don’t want to be ill, …

MAKE DECISIONS.

The undecided person remains in doubt, in anxiety, in anguish. Indecision accumulates problems,

worries and aggressions. Human history is made of decisions. To decide is precisely to know to renounce,

to know how to lose some advantages and values, but then to win others. The undecided people are victims

of gastric ailments, nervous pains and problems of the skin.

If you don’t want to be ill, …

FIND SOLUTIONS.

Negative people do not find solutions, they enlarge problems. They prefer lamentation, gossip, pessimism.

It is better to light a match than to regret the darkness. A bee is small, but produces one of the sweetest

things that exist. We are what we think. The negative thought generates negative energy that transforms into illness.

If you don’t want to be ill, …

DON’T LIVE BY APPEARANCES.

One who hides reality pretends, poses, and always wants to give the impression of being well.

He wants to be seen as perfect, easy–going, etc. but is accumulating tons of weight. A bronze statue with feet of clay.

There is nothing worse for health than to live on appearances and façades. These are people with a lot

of varnish and little root. Their destiny is the pharmacy, the hospital and pain.

If you don’t want to be ill, …

ACCEPT.

The refusal of acceptance and the absence of self–esteem makes us alienate ourselves. Being at one with ourselves is

the core of healthy life. They who do not accept this become envious, jealous, become imitators, become ultra–competitive

and destructive. Be accepted, accept that you are accepted, accept the criticisms. It is wisdom, good sense and good therapy.

If you don’t want to be ill, …

TRUST.

He who does not trust does not communicate, is not opened, is not related and does not create deep and stable relations,

does not know how to create true friendships. Without confidence, there is no relationship. Distrust is a lack of faith in you and in faith itself.

If you don’t want to be ill, …

DO NOT LIVE LIFE SAD.

Good humor, Laughter. Rest. Happiness. These things replenish Health and bring long life. The happy person has

the gift to improve the environment wherever they live. ‘Good humor saves us from the hands of the doctor!’

Happiness is health and therapy.

By Dr Drauzio Varella

Promise Yourself

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can
disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to
every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel like there is
something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your
optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best,
and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on the
greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give
every living person you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, and too
strong for fear, and to happy to permit the
presence of trouble.

The Optimist Creed
From The Optimist International

DESIDERATA

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

-- written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s --