The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.
The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.
Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, “Am I keeping my promises?”
There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.
Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.
There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.
I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
Be happy, and a reason will come along.
You can’t postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.
Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else’s happiness.
Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to.
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.