What's your usual routine on Father's Day? Some people spend a day out with their dads, doing activities like outdoor camping or fishing. Some people prepare a special outing or go to dinner at expensive restaurants. But most people don't really give Father's Day the time and attention it deserves.

Born as a counterpart for Mother's Day in the early 20^th century, this holiday celebrates one of the most celebrated men in each person's lives: fathers. So don't just glaze over this opportunity to give thanks to one of the most important people in your life. Give your father something that not just tells him how much he means to you, but something that shows your talent as well.

Fathers don't just have one single role; they have plenty of responsibilities to fulfill. Despite that, they still find time to take care of their children. But sometimes their energy just runs out, and they need the life of their loved ones too keep them going.

What better way to give your father a little inspiration than by writing him some poetry. For you to do this, it doesn't even have to be Father's day. Inspirational poetry can be appreciated all year round.

Think up suitable topics, like events or experiences that you and your father shared together, or maybe your father's unique habits or characteristics. Put your feelings about such times and qualities into poetry.

Make it serious or humorous, truly heartfelt, and of course, inspirational for him. Father's day poetry is not something easy to replicate as every father and every family is different all over the world.

So whatever you come up with will surely have a very special place in your father's heart. Anything that a child creates for a parent is something they can truly treasure, and using poetry to express your feelings towards your father will not only help him bring out appreciation for you, but more confidence in himself as well, for raising such children that truly care about and are proud of him.

Keep your poetry honest and appreciative; fathers need all the encouragement they can get, and giving him such a beautiful reminder will definitely make him feel good about himself.

Remember that your father is not perfect, no matter how he seemed (or still seems) like a superhero in your eyes. This simple gift of inspirational poetry will surely renew his energy and make him glad that he is a father of someone who inspires him to be the best father he can be.

We are a product of our dominate thoughts. What we think about most becomes our reality. If we want to be happy then, all we have to do is think happy thoughts! These happiness affirmations will remind you of the happiness that already exists in your life, and allow you to pass that happiness on to others. 

#1

My happiness is reflected in my smile and cheerful personality.

#2

My pleasing and joyful personality is contagious.

#3

I am always kind and helpful to strangers.

#4

I spring out of bed with joy and excitement.

#5

I am excited about the new day and look forward to it with anticipation and interest.

#6

I choose to be happy at the start of each day.

#7

I laugh at myself with childish joy.

#8

My sense of humor touches everyone around me.

#9

My happiness continually brings me more happiness.

#10

My happiness draws an overwhelming amount blessing into my Life.

#11

I radiate love and happiness.

#12

I gratefully accept all the health, wealth and happiness that the universe pours into me every day.

#13

I deserve love, success and happiness.

#14

I love myself and I am in charge of my own happiness.

#15

I am worthy of great love.

#16

I am worthy of great love and I deserve to be loved fully and completely.

#17

All of my dreams are coming true.

#18

I am ALREADY healed, happy, loving, wealthy, successful, confident, physically and emotionally well.

#19

I am at peace with myself.

#20

I deserve to be loved fully and completely.

#21

I gratefully accept all the wealth and happiness that the Universe pours into me every day.

#22

I am in love with a man who is in love with me.

#23

I deserve to be happy.

#24

I am an early riser, and a deep sleeper!

#25

I am healthy and happy.

#26

My mind can achieve anything it can imagine.

#27

Let it go, and rediscover peace of mind.

#28

Every atom of my being is resonating with joy and happiness now.

#29

My good comes to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.

#30

Smile often people smile back.

#31

I am so happy; my life is full of joyful moments.
#32

I am radiating with love and happiness.

#33

I control my own happiness, and my life's direction.

#34

Life is beautiful and I love it.

#35

Life is a joy and it is my reward.

#36

I deserve to be loved and be happy.

#37

I experience joy every moment I am alive.

#38

I am happy and my happiness springs from within me.

#39

Every aspect of life gives cause for me to be happy.

#40

I choose happiness to fill all my days.

#41

I am a magnet for happiness.

#42

My natural state is to be happy and full of laughter.

#43

I give thanks for everything that comes to me daily.

#44

Happiness flows in me and through me to everyone in my life.

#45

All things I do bring happiness and pleasure for me and those around me.

#46

Being happy is my birthright. I choose and deserve to be happy!

#47

The happiness in my life manifests itself in my personal well-being.

#48

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

#49

I create the happiness in my life!

#50

I feel happy easily and naturally!

Sweet Love Quotes

Love has the power to do many things. Love makes us laugh, love makes us cry. Love makes us soar to the heavens; love makes us crash hard back to earth. To love or be loved is one of life's most beautiful things. These quotes will make you remember loves of the pasts and think of loves that are in your life right now. Without love, what are we really and what would be the point of living if we had no one to love?

#1.

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

~Ingrid Bergmen

#2.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are.Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

#3.

My night has become a sunny dawn because of you.

~Ibn Abbad

#4.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

~Margaret Anderson

#5.

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

~Janos Arnay

 

 

#6.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

~St. Augustine

#7.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

~Aristotle

#8.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

~Aphra Behn

#9.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

~Sarah Bernhardt

#10.

In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.

~Bliss and Cerney

#11.

Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks...

~John Dunne

#12.

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes...

~Elizabeth Barret Browning

#13

. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach...

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#14.

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

~Robert Browning

#15.

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

~Robert Burns

#16.

She walks in Beauty, like the night

Of cloudness climes and starry skies,

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

~Lord Byron

#17.

Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.

~Lord Byron

#18.

I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.

~Roy Croft

#19.

You're nothing short of my everything.

~Ralph Block

#20.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

#21.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

~Euripides

#23.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

#24.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.

~Andre Gide

#25.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

~Robert Heinlein

#26.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

#27.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

~Victor Hugo

#28.

It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands.

~Jaka

#29.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

~John Keats

#30.

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

~Helen Keller

#31.

... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

~Gretchen Kemp

#32.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

~Amy Lowell

#33.

Make me immortal with a kiss.

~Christopher Marlowe

#34.

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

~Christopher Marlowe

#35.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

~Alphonse Marie de la Martine

 

 

 

#36.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

~Mignon McLaughlin

#37.

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

~Pablo Neruda

#38.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it...you and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

~George Moore

#39.

In love there are two things: bodies and words.

~Joyce Carol Oates

#40.

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

~Rumi

 

Scripture on Forgiveness

Walking the Christian life is not always the easy choice, and it is often hard to find forgiveness in our hearts when we have been wronged or injured in some way. Even those with the greatest of intentions do not automatically feel mercy and forgiveness for others. To forgive is a choice we make by our own will - and is in accordance with God's command. These scriptures on forgiveness will help you better understand what the Bible has to say about forgiveness, and how we must learn to forgive others as the Lord has forgiven us.

#1

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me. Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 51: 10-12

#2

He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter separates even close friends. Proverbs 17: 9

#3

If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7: 14

#3

O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, give heed and act! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name. Daniel 9: 19

#4

For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Matthew 6: 14

#5

If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action]. 1 John 1: 9

#6

Behold my affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins [of thinking and doing]. Psalm 25: 18

#7

Then Peter came up to Him and said, Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? [As many as] up to seven times? Jesus answered him, I tell you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven! Matthew 18: 21-22

#8

So also My heavenly Father will deal with every one of you if you do not freely forgive your brother from your heart his offenses. Matthew 18: 35

#9

For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more. Hebrews 8: 12

#10

He then goes on to say, And their sins and their lawbreaking I will remember no more. Now where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these [sins and lawbreaking], there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin. Hebrews 10: 17-18

#11

Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference (a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. Colossians 3: 13

#12

For You, O Lord, are good, and ready to forgive [our trespasses, sending them away, letting them go completely and forever]; and You are abundant in mercy and loving-kindness to all those who call upon You. Psalm 86: 5

#13

In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor. Ephesians 1: 7

#14

So let it be clearly known and understood by you, brethren, that through this Man forgiveness and removal of sins is now proclaimed to you. Acts 13: 38

#15

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop. Mark 11:25

#16

[The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom we have our redemption through His blood, [which means] the forgiveness of our sins. Colossians 1: 13-14

#17

And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions. Colossians 2: 13

#18

Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is he who has forgiveness of his transgression continually exercised upon him, whose sin is covered. Psalm 32: 1

#19

I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord [continually unfolding the past till all is told]--then You [instantly] forgave me the guilt and iniquity of my sin. Psalm 32: 5

 

Buying Happiness for Others - Money and Happiness

A lot of people already know the fact that "money can't buy happiness." Yet plenty are still living in a world where the two terms are looked upon as equals.

While it is really human nature to crave more and never be satisfied by what you have, there are some ways in which we can use money as a means to provide us with happiness, when used the right way.

Being unselfish is one of these ways. Giving to others is one of the main sources and reasons for real, unadulterated joy, so as long as you give without the thought that you will be paid back in time. That would be plain blackmail, holding out for favors from the people you helped.

Genuine giving is when you expect nothing in return. Money and happiness work together in this sense that you are not using money to buy happiness just for yourself (in terms of material and sensual satisfaction), but to help others, whether they are in real need or just as a kind gesture.

Just be careful not to hold people accountable for the help you give them, or you would very soon be feeling like these people just like you because they can take advantage of you. They say that money is the root of all evil, and evil includes bad thoughts.So giving with strings attached is very much a trigger for such things.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can help us get closer in achieving that ultimate goal. Most people think that they will be satisfied with material gain, but what really brings happiness is the fact that you made another soul happy by being there.

Human reaction and interaction are the essential elements in being truly happy, and not the inanimate existence of money and its abilities. Money has to be used in doing good, and happiness follows when you fulfill these results. That's why a lot of people with little to no money of their own are still satisfied and happy with their lives because they still have the ability to make the people around them smile.

Money is merely a vehicle in which the essence of happiness can travel and touch others. And when this happens, their flow of happy energy reflects back to you, the giver, and you get to know and experience what real happiness is.

Happiness is found in money when it used for the sake of the happiness of others. This is how money and happiness can be found side by side.