
I don't believe in santa claus.
I am not even sure if I believe that a child was born under a shining star.

Q. My best friend told me this yesterday: "We are in relationship for more than a year now and we have already planned to get married. But I was taken back, when he introduced me to his friends as his 'good friend'.
Love Quotables- Chapter 15Source: flyguychronicles.com
If my words prove incapable of articulating my heart's appreciation for you, then let the words of others inspire a new sense of understanding of just how much you mean to me. Here is Volume 15 of Love Quotables. Enjoy.

Within two weeks of meeting someone in 2007, he proposed.
The Doctor Is WithinSource: The New York Times
"Dream — nothing!" is one of the many things I've heard the 14th Dalai Lama say to large audiences that seem to startle the unprepared.

Couple weeks back, some dude at the gym, guy in his early forties tells me, "You're in really good shape for a guy your age."
"Oh yeah?" I shoot back!" "Well I'm in really good shape for a guy YOUR age too!"

So that everyone can understand a little better about why I was so close to my grandparents, I am going to write about what life was like growing up.
Cat teaches puppies how to catch miceSource: ananova.com
Excerpt: A cat in China has adopted two orphaned puppies - and is trying to teach them how to catch mice.
The female cat - named Tom - nurses the puppies and washes them with her tongue, reports the Yaxin Network.

Forsyth, Georgia - Good News Wednesday
"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."Francis Quarles
Friends are like the walls of a house.
Is The Octuplets Home Safe?Source: CBS News
Excerpt: How the mother of octuplets, Nadya Suleman, is going to take care of them and their six siblings is one of the questions that Lara Spencer, the host of "The Insider" recently asked when she sat down with Nadia Suleman and her mother, Angela Suleman.

Am I my Brother's keeper?
uuworld.org : a meditation from Mark BelitiniSource: UU World
"Do not think you can take away
each other's troubles,
but try to be with each other in them.
Remember that you are part, not all,
great, but not by far the greatest,
small, precious brief breaths
in the great whirlwind of creation."

Day 4 -- CARING (Feb. 2)
According to Peter McWilliams, "Nonviolence toward the self is caring for oneself. It is what the Greeks call reverence for the self."
Real caring is not just what we say, but what we do.

Why should each one of us care about the welfare of others, have compassion for those who suffer, be concerned for humanity?
* Because caring, compassion and concern are requirements for peace.
* Because every person in the world is part of one family, the family of man.
A Revolution in Me -- A Kindness StorySource: Help Others
So, now, when I cross paths with another, I ask myself the question, am I meeting this person with a closed heart that feels bad and has the weakest will to live, or am I greeting another with a warm heart that is pounding with an openness to love life?
Santas Hearing About Bad Economy From KidsSource: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7
DENVER -- You know the economy is getting bad when, instead of toys, kids are asking Santa for food.
Rich Lopez has been playing Santa in Boulder for eight years.
GET HAPPY! - 10 Things Science Says Will Make You HappySource: AlterNet.org
Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …
Choosing Love This Holiday SeasonSource: UU World
In this season of contrasts, I am reminded of the words of the Rev. Rebecca Parker: "Your gifts, whatever you discover them to be, can be used to bless or curse the world."
Dog thrown from moving car recoveringSource: ABC Action News
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TAMPA, FL -- A malnourished pitbull, rescued after being thrown from a vehicle, is now on her way to recovery thanks to the kindness of others.
Leo the dog saves kittens from burning fireSource: YouTube
Leo the dog wouldn't leave a burning house without his kittens. He almost gave his life for them. At the end of the video, it's really touching to see his relief and joy when he's united with his little loved ones. He showers them in kisses.