We don’t see our parents as people. Your daddy was also a man—a very good man too—but he was a man.
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
Bellybuttons are our link with the past.
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.