A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one’s husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Anne Spencer

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
Edgar Watson Howe

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther

Bill Clinton’s foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
Pat Buchanan

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
Clement Freud

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics.
Bill James

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert

Breakfast Pizza - Click on image for recipe!

Altercations and communication deadlocks can be extremely frustrating. Sometimes it seems that you can have the same issue, over and over again, with the same individual…for years! What can you do that changes the tide?

Have you ever apologized when you didn’t feel apologetic? Not an easy task, I know. But as it’s often been said, “Would you rather be right or happy?” Apologizing is often an easy way to open communication back up and let the healing begin, regardless of whether you’re deeply feeling it or not.

Or what if you’re really angry at someone’s behavior? Just as a challenge to yourself, try to say the opposite of what you’d like to say. Don’t think of it as a lie; think of it as a method to find a small thread of what you do like and simply mentioning it. (”I really like how you speak your mind!”) Again, you’ll be surprised at the results. You turned your standard behavior on its head!

Don’t like that neighbor of yours, who seems highly inconsiderate, try smiling (even if they don’t smile in response) in passing.

It doesn’t have to feel great; it’s just a method to break your standard response and see the results.

In short, it opens up your mind!

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Claire Lomas approaches the London Marathon finishing line in her ReWalk bionic suit. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

A paralysed woman has become the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit.

Claire Lomas finished the London Marathon 16 days after the race began. The 32-year-old said she was “over the moon” as she completed the 26.2-mile route, which she started on 22 April with 36,000 other participants.

The former chiropractor was in tears as she became the first person to complete any marathon using a bionic ReWalk suit at 12.50pm on Tuesday.

Hundreds lined the streets as she made her final steps to complete the race. Three mounted members of the Household Cavalry gave her a guard of honour as she crossed the finishing line on the Mall.

A spokeswoman for the mounted regiment said the riders were there to give Lomas “extra support because she is passionate about horses”.

Read more about this inspiring first!

“Live in the moment.”

And in a perfect Zen-like world, that’s all we’d do. But is living in the past always such a bad thing? Of course, when you’re reliving past pain and anger repeatedly, that certainly isn’t so helpful. But perhaps there’s a way to bring the beauty of your personal past into your very real now.

What if you allowed your child-like self to come to life today? She could play, wander aimlessly and be dazzled by shiny objects. He might be more open to new ideas and to allowing more fun in.

What if you let your teenage self romp around for a bit? She could stomp when angry or he could play music really loud, just to annoy others.

What if you could bring back a feeling from the past? Some eras seem as if they were touched by magic. Could you bring some of that to life today by envisioning it, feeling it?

What if you could revisit a moment in your past and change the ending? We’ve all dreamed of it but did you know that even playing it out in your head can be vastly therapeutic? Win when you lost. Speak your mind when you were left speechless. Kiss him when you were too afraid.

The past is not to be avoided completely. It contains the building blocks of who we are now. All those different phases had a great degree of importance. Use your past instead of letting it use you!

There’s something particularly inspiring when a young person saves the day. It gives us a glimpse into his or her burgeoning character and makes us feel confident that soon enough, we’ll have a full-fledged adult capable of changing the world.

More than two dozen horses are alive thanks to the efforts of a courageous 15-year-old who sprang into action when she saw flames in the stables.

“I started off by just putting their halters on and pulling them out by twos, but then the fire started getting quicker so I just started wrapping their ropes around their necks and just tying them around my arms and pulling them out,” Madison Wallraf recalled.

The Wednesday evening fire at the M&R Overlook Farms in suburban McHenry, Illinois raged for about two hours.

With no hydrants, water had to be trucked in to fight the blaze that consumed the 25,000 square-foot metal barn.

Wallraf described how she crawled through the aisle to rescue the frantic horses as flames flanked her and smoke filled the space to about three feet off the floor.

“I got kicked in the shoulder by one of the horses in there and I got knocked down a few times, but my adrenaline was so high at the time that it didn’t phase me,” said the 4-foot, 10-inch teen.

Ultimately, 16 horses died. Three more escaped.

An aerial search Thursday morning using thermal imaging was called off by midday, and it’s hoped the horses will return.

“We know they’re out in the woods, we just dont’ know where,” said McHenry Township Fire District Chief Tony Huemann.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Source: KSBY.com

Starlight, star bright. First star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might have this wish I wish tonight.

Wishes are intrinsically tied into hope and ritual. Let’s make many wishes today, shall we? For the good of us and the world.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
Charlie Byrd

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
David Seabury

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.
Wild Bill Hickok

All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Sophocles

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
Corin Nemec

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Hey, listen. We’re hardly competitive here at Only Positive News. (That would kind of defeat the purpose, right?) We’re happy to promote other websites who contribute to a relatively small world of websites dedicated to positive news. Read about this latest endeavor, started by students, so hungry for more positive news, they created it themselves:

The Honors Junior English Department at Desert Vista High School [in Arizona] was tired of only seeing stories that painted public education in a negative light.

The idea of bringing news about the positives, to change public perception, sparked an idea within one of those DV teachers. That idea turned into a project of teamwork and passion which culminated in the form of a website after months of work by the students.

The five classes and more than 100 students worked together on ideas, structure and content for a standalone website, called The Thunder Project, www.thethunderproject.org. It was the first time such a project has been undertaken, and was envisioned by teachers Jennifer Atkins and Deborah Benedict.

“They are both very passionate about the subject and they wanted to do something more meaningful for this year’s classes,” said Zak Ferrara, student and assistant editor of the website. “We hear things all over that public education is failing. But it is succeeding for us.”

Read more at: East Valley Tribune

A lack of sunlight can lead to reduced mental performance, not just mood disorders, among depressed people, a U.S. university study claims.

“This new finding that weather may not only affect mood but also cognition has significant implications for the treatment of depression, particularly seasonal affective disorder,” University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Shia Kent said.

We all know a lack of sunlight can contribute to bad moods and fuzzy thinking. Yet most of us don’t realize we can take our “vitamins” easily enough by simply stepping outside and taking in the rays for a bit.

Start your week off right with a blast of light.

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
Barack Obama

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
Audrey Hepburn

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Hunter S. Thompson

In the morning, a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men are children and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David Thoreau

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)