Someday my children will look fondly on the annoying things I did and see them clearly as evidence of love.
We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing.
Your life is a personal lesson. For everyone else it is a loud example.
Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us.
I love you” means I want you to be happy.
Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?
I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak.
Love in its essence is unconditional. When conditions, exceptions, and ultimatums are cast into the mix, its purity changes. It is no longer love and should be referred to by a less-desirable name.
At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world – to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.
When you delete ‘impossible’ from your thinking, you give yourself permission to imagine, to believe, to try, and to accomplish phenomenal things.
Thank you, Mom, for the way you managed yourself during the childish, mean, selfish, insensitive, irresponsible, unreasonable, hateful moments I put you through. From your example I learned to be patient, positive, kind, selfless, sympathetic, reliable, sensible, and loving. You have my endless appreciation.
It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.
It’s not wrong to feel sorry for yourself. Just like it’s not wrong to stand in a puddle of water while the rain pours down on your head. But neither is productive, unless you enjoy feeling cold and miserable and soggy while mascara runs down your face.
With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.
So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through.
To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.
People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.
Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling.
A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him.
This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.