Life is Good

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Enjoy Life

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

Friendship Never End

The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end.

Search Within

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

Generations

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Just Be You

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Experience, Wisdom

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Be Happy!

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.

Never the Same

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

Do What You Should

Part of the reason [motherly advice] bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.

Forgiving Parents

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior

Love Yourself

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself - love yourself.

Beginning All Over Again

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Purpose in Life

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

Uniqueness

Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.

Education and Experience

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

To Do, Love and Hope for

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Glass Half Full

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

Walk Beside Me

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Keeping In Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Skip Generation

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.

Be Better than Yourself

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Woman's Life

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Nobody But You

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Millionaires

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

True Happiness

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Be Strong

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

A Treasure

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Valuable Mistakes

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Generation of Men

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.