Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others... By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
I’m not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.