In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
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.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
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.
Being interested is more important than being interesting.
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
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 poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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