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Life is Beautiful Quotes

• Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.-Thich Nhat Hanh

• I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.- Anne Frank

• Whoever is happy will make others happy too.- Anne Frank

• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.- Helen Keller

• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

• Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

• There is beauty and serenity in the eye of the storm.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

• See beauty in the familiar.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

• I choose to enjoy people as I enjoy a rainbow or a butterfly -they are most beautiful when they are free.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

• When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.- Lee Ann Womack

• As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.- Marianne Williamson

• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.- Helen Keller

• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.- Albert Einstein

• Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,and the life of the candle will not be shortened.Happiness never decreases by being shared.- The Buddha

• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.- George Washington Carver

• Life has loveliness to sell,all beautiful and splendid things,

• blue waves whitened on a cliff,soaring fire that sways and sings,and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.- Sara Teasdale

• This above all, to thine own self be true.- William Shakespeare

• It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

• Happiness depends upon ourselves.- Aristotle

• It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.- Mary Anne Radmacher

• Be gentle first with yourself.- Lama Yeshe

Touching Story

Special Delivery

Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the Surgeon come out of the operating room, saying: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be O.K.? When can I see him?"The surgeon responded, "I'm sorry, we did all we could." Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer, doesn't GOD care any more? GOD, where were you when my son needed you?"The surgeon softly told her, "One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes to let you spend time with your son's remains before it's transported to the university".Sally asked that the nurse stay with her while she said good-bye to her son. As she ran her fingers through his thick red curly hair, the nurse said, "Would you like a lock of his hair?"Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of his hair and put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.She gazed at her son’s body as she spoke to the nurse. 

  "It was Jimmy's idea to give his body to the university for study. He said it might help somebody else, and that is what he wanted. I said, no at first, but Jimmy said, ‘Mom I won't be using it after I die, maybe it will help some other little boy to be able to spend one more day with his mother’. My Jimmy had a heart of gold, always thinking of someone else and always wanting to help others if he could".

   Sally walked out of the Children's Hospital for the last time now after spending most of the last 6 months there.She sat the bag with Jimmy's things in it on the seat beside of her in the car. The drive home was hard and it was even harder to go into an empty house. She took the bag to Jimmy's room and started placing the model cars and things back in his room exactly where he always kept them. She lay down across his bed and cried herself to sleep holding his pillow.Sally woke up about midnight and lying beside her on the bed, was a letter folded up.

She opened the letter, it said:

Dear Mom,

I know you're going to miss me, but don't think that I will ever forget you or stop loving you because I'm not around to say I LOVE YOU. I'll think of you every day mom and I'll love you even more each day. Some day we will see each other again. If you want to adopt a little boy so you won't be so lonely, he can have my room and my old stuff to play with. If you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn't like the same things as us boys do, so you will have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like.Don't be sad when you think about me, this is really a great place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything here.The Angels are so friendly, and I love to watch them fly. Jesus doesn't look like any of the pictures I saw of Him,but I knew it was Him as soon as I saw Him. Jesus took me to see GOD! And guess what mom? I got to sit on GOD'S knee and talk to Him like I was somebody important. I told GOD that I wanted to write you a letter and tell you good-bye and everything, but I knew that wasn't allowed. God handed me some paper and His own personal pen to write you this letter with. I think Gabriel is the name of the angel that is going to drop this letter off to you. God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you asked Him about... “Where was He when I needed him?”God said, "The same place He was when Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all His children.” Oh, by the way Mom, nobody else can see what is written on this paper but you. To everyone else, it looks 

like a blank piece of paper.I have to give God His pen back now, He has some more names to write in the Book Of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for supper. I'm sure the food will be great. I almost forgot to let you know - now I don't hurt anymore,the cancer is all gone. I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't stand to see me suffer the pain either, so He sent The Angel of Mercy to get me. The Angel said I was Special Delivery

by:John Deru

Inspirational Christian Quotes

• Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than sheep. —– Mark Beltare
• The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.—John 10:10
• Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. – Matthew 28:19
• A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. —C. S. Lewis
• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. —-Oscar Wilde
• Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian. —
• If it weren’t for the optimist, the pessimist would never know how happy he wasn’t. —-Anonymous
• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world —-C.S. Lewis
• Build your nest upon no tree here; for you see God has sold the forest to death.  —–Samuel Rutherford
• I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart. —-St. Augustine
• A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. —-Arnold Glasgow
• Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards. —- Soren Kierkegaard
• Faith is a living and unshakable confidence. A belief in God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake. – Martin Luther
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. —–Albert Einstein

GOD can change your life..

"Once In Every Lifetime"

HACHIKO:A Faithful Dog

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Hachi: A Dog's Tale (or Hachiko: A Dog's Story outside the United States) is a 2009 American drama film based on the true story of the faithful Akita Hachikō. It is a remake of the 1987 movie Hachi-kō (Hachikō Monogatari) ハチ公物語 (literally “The Tale of Hachiko”). It was directed by Lasse Hallström, written by Stephen P. Lindsey and stars Richard Gere, Joan Allen and Sarah Roemer.
    In the modern day, a class full of young students is giving oral presentations about personal heroes. A boy named Ronnie (Kevin DeCoste) stands up and begins to tell of 'Hachiko', his grandfather's dog. Years before, an Akita puppy is sent from Japan to the United States, but his cage falls off the baggage cart at an American train station, where he is found by college professor Parker Wilson (Richard Gere). Parker is instantly captivated by the dog. When Carl (Jason Alexander), the station controller, refuses to take him, Parker takes the puppy home overnight. His wife Cate (Joan Allen) is insistent about not keeping the puppy.
    The next day Parker expects that someone will have contacted the train station, but no one has. He sneaks the pup onto the train and takes him to work, where a Japanese college professor, Ken (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), translates the symbol on the pup's collar as 'Hachi', Japanese for 'good fortune', and the number 8. Parker decides to call the dog 'Hachi'. Ken points out that perhaps the two are meant to be together. Parker attempts to play fetch with Hachi, but he refuses to join in. Meanwhile Cate receives a call about someone wanting to adopt Hachi. After seeing how close her husband has come to Hachi, however, Cate tells the caller that Hachi has already been adopted.A few years later, Hachi and Parker are as close as ever. Parker, however, is still mystified by Hachi's refusal to do normal, dog-like things like chase and retrieve a ball. Ken advises him that Hachi will only bring him the ball for a special reason. One morning, Parker leaves for work and Hachi sneaks out and follows him to the train station, where he refuses to leave until Parker walks him home. That afternoon, Hachi sneaks out again and walks to the train station, waiting patiently for Parker's train to come in. Eventually Parker relents and walks Hachi to the station every morning, where he leaves on the train. Hachi leaves after Parker's safe departure, but comes back in the afternoon to see his master's train arrive and walk with him home again. This continues for some time, until one afternoon Parker attempts to leave, but Hachi barks and refuses to go with him. Parker eventually leaves without him, but Hachi chases him, holding his ball. Parker is surprised but pleased that Hachi is finally willing to play fetch the ball with him. Worried that he will be late for the college, Professor Parker leaves on the train despite Hachi barking at him. At work that day Parker, still holding Hachi's ball, is teaching his music class when he suddenly suffers a fatal heart attack.
    At the train station, Hachi waits patiently as the train arrives, but there is no sign of Parker. He remains, lying in the snow, for several hours, until Parker's son-in-law Michael (Ronnie Sublett) comes to collect him. The next day, Hachi returns to the station and waits, remaining all day and all night. As time passes, Cate sells the house and Hachi is sent to live with her daughter Andy (Sarah Roemer), Michael, and their new baby Ronnie. However, at the first opportunity, he escapes and eventually finds his way back to his old house and then to the train station, where he sits at his usual spot, eating hot dogs given to him by Jas (Erick Avari), a local vendor. Andy arrives soon after and takes him home, but lets him out the next day to return to the station.
    For the next nine years, Hachi waits for his owner. His loyalty is profiled in the local newspaper. Years after Parker's death, Cate comes back to visit Parker's grave when she catches sight of Hachi, now old and achy, waiting at the station. She gets emotional and sits next to Hachi until the next train comes. Hachi returns to the train station late at night and closes his eyes for the last time. Then, Parker walks out of the station and greets him as if nothing has changed at all, and the two reunite as their spirits rise up to Heaven.
   The film then shows Ronnie, back in his classroom, making his conclusion of why Hachi will forever be his hero. He then meets up with his own Akita puppy, named Hachi, to walk down the same tracks where Parker and Hachi spent so many years together.
   The closing cards reveal information about the real Hachikō who was born in Odate in 1923. After the death of his owner Hidesaburo Ueno in 1925, Hachiko returned to the Shibuya train station the next day and every day after that for the next nine years. The final card reveals that real Hachiko died in 1934 (in fact, he died in 1935). A photo of his statue in the Shibuya train station is the last image shown before the credits roll. 
   The film was shot primarily in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and Bristol, Rhode Island. The newspaper reporter, Teddy, states he is from the Woonsocket Call, the daily newspaper published in Woonsocket. This is the only spoken reference to the actual location where filming took place.The movie is a good example of loyalty and trust between man and animals.

HACHI~ a faithful dog waiting for his deceased master....Amazing!!!:). like true christians, being faithful waiting for the coming of our LORD...Dog doesn't know that he is waiting for nothing, yet still faithful,how about us??.. we're blessed because we know that JESUS will come back..:)