At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
In the end, it’s not what you do for your children but what you’ve taught them to do for themselves.
The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Maturity isn’t a product of growing older. It’s a product of growing wiser.
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 – with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You’d draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
Many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing
No one can take advantage of you without your permission.
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly – to someone else.
Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.
The Lord gave us two ends – one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.
Don’t give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down
