Some things you just can’t explain. You don’t even try. You don’t know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.
If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary – the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.
The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average – though those things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you’ve touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.
Its not a contest about whose days suck the most. The point is we all have to put up with the bad days.
Greatness... lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength... He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Ian Maclaren.
What’s cool about really little kids is that they don’t say stuff to try to hurt your feelings, even though sometimes they do say stuff that hurts your feelings. But they don’t actually know what they’re saying. Big kids, though: they know what they’re saying. And that is definitely not fun for me.
Listen to the whispers.
It’s so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that’s the worst in your life, but to everybody else it’s just an ordinary night.
Your deeds are your monuments.
I forgot that I might see So many beautiful things I forgot that I might need To find out what life could bring.
But the good thing about life is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better.
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can. – John Wesley’s Rule.
We carry within us the wonders we seek around us.
Good friendships are worth a little extra effort!
You don’t need your eyes to love, right? You just feel it inside you. That’s how it is in heaven. It’s just love, and no one forgets who they love.
If you don’t know what to do, just be kind. You can’t go wrong.
And I wondered how it would feel to be in Heaven and not have my face matter anymore. Just like how it never, ever mattered to Daisy.
The things you did, you know they were not right. But that does not mean you are not capable of doing right. It only means that you chose to do wrong.