If someone throws you the ball, you don't have to catch it.

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.

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

What is even more important than developing intuition is cultivating the sense of adventure and discovery in life.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.

Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.