With all that is happening in our world, I felt the need to post this. It will not cure anything, but it sure might help. john C.
from my collection:

Book: Holy Hilarity      Cal & Rose Samra

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are great preserves of youthful looks.
Charles Dickson

I will have no melancholy or sad spirits in my house. Cheerful people are more easily  led to perfection. Persevere in cheerfulness, for this is the true way to make progress in virtue.
Philip Neri

Daily Prayer:
I want to thank you, Lord, for bring close too me so far this day. With your help I haven't been impatient, lost my temper, Been grumpy, judgmental, or envious of anyone. But I will be getting out of bed in a minute, and I think I will really need your help then. Amen!
Dean Alan Jones

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, go love without the help of anything on earth."
William Blake

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs  17:22

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric. They are more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
Bob Newhart

Those who are wise to overlook many wrongs and often do not take them as such, for either they do not know about them or, if they do, they make fun of them and turn them into jokes. To pay no attention to injuries is a mark of magnanimity.
Martin of Braga

Life is a mirror; if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Thackeray

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies.
Martin Luther

The joy of The Lord is your strength.
Nehemiah  8:10

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Harry Ward Beecher

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller

Looking at the bright side won't hurt your eyes.
Rev. Denny Brake

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in Providence.
George Cheever

Football doesn't build character; it exposes it.
Gary Barnett  Football Coach

Sheer joy is God's and this demands companionship.
Thomas Aquinas

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men.
Stanley Baldwin

Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
Albert Schweutzer

Rev Steve W. Caraway: "I have good news and bad news about our pledges. The good news is; we have reached our goal. The bad news is; you still have them in your pocket."

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.
Norman Vincent Peal

Wow John,
What a collection.
It certainly would do us more good than harm to try and stay positive.

John, thank you, thank you, thank you ...
One of the best posts in a long time !!!

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Great thoughts!
However, I am Positive I want to be Negative if I get tested for that beer virus.

John....may I add one of my own favorite Bible passages...

Philippians 4:8 New International Version (NIV)

"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."

Mark: Metaphysically speaking, Jesus was saying the mind cannot think of two things at one time (both positive and negative thoughts)!

There is allways possitive things,
In general crisus and catastrphes bring the best out in people..

An other noteworthy thing is humor, this is one of the things people use as a distraction and it really helps.
I guess music does the same thing..



This is whats happening in Italy
People in confinement singing and making music together..

As i said, bad times in general bring best out in people

Thank you John, good post!

Good stuff. I have a personal goal to try to do something positive everyday. There's always some small thing you can do. Karma and all that !

+1! Great stuff and thanks to all for helping keep the ball rolling in the right direction. We are indeed all in this together!