Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.

Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.