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.
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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.
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
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.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.
Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”
My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.
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.
Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.
Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
People, like water, seek their own level.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
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