welcome to a new and wonderful tuesday  there’s now a new day in our lives with which we can do as we please, and we hope that you’re able to make this day a very special one, by doing things that will make it special in the memories you have tomorrow.

It is interesting to note that even Jefferson never proposed happiness as an inalienable right.  Our constitution talks of a right only for the pursuit of happiness.  Ours for the seeking and the winning!  Not free.  Happiness is the result, the product, of endeavor.  Never God-given.  Happiness is only God-permitted.

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Cherish your visions.  Cherish your ideals.  Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you will but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

James Allen

And here's our quick thought of the day: