See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.
I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?
Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.
It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.
If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?
While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.
As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
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