You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift.
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown up. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of b...
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.