Just for today, i’ll focus on the people i’m with. . . . In this day and age, it’s astonishing to see how many people feel that it’s not rude to ignore the people they’re with while they talk o...
So thank you for who you are and for all of your contributions to this world in which we live. Thanks for focusing on the positive, for the more of us who do so there are, the more positive life and e...
The simple truth is that love is a part of who we are, not something that others "give" to us if we're worthy of it. We're taught that if we just find that right person, and that person "falls in love...
Today, I am glad that I’m me—I’m glad that I was born who I am, that I’ve learned what I’ve learned, and that I’ve become who I am. I am happy and grateful for my life, and I shall not waste time...
When someone does something that hurts us, it’s easy for us to think that if we forgive that person, we’re doing so for his or her sake. The truth is, though, that we ourselves benefit the most from...
One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. -Sophocles
Thinking ahead often seems to be a lost art. Many people are so caught up in instant gratification that they never stop to think about the long-term effects of some of their actions. They also don’t...
Let’s not judge others for chances that they’ve not had—in fact, let’s not judge them at all. Let’s accept them right now for who they are
How we like to hold on! Sometimes we’re unwilling to let things go just because we know them, and they feel safe to us, even if we’re talking about something like behaviors that harm us, like defensi...
Hurry is a thief, pure and simple. And sometimes when we complain about the absence of certain things in our lives, we really aren’t missing those things at all—rather, we just don’t notice them when...
Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are.
Some of us waste a lot of time waiting for teachers to come along, telling ourselves that we can’t learn anything important on our own. But learning is something that we easily can do on our own—some...
But no matter how life looks at the moment, if we trust that it looks this way for a reason that will help us and others in the future, we can deal with this moment with a much stronger sense of purpo...
How much time do we spend searching for happiness, hoping to find it in the new relationship or the new car or the new friendship or the new cell phone that has everything I’d ever want in a cell phon...
We’re making a choice every single time we put something into our mouths. And it’s a much more important choice than most people make it out to be. Today, make the choices that are positive ones for...
We often spend tons of time trying to get people to believe the things that we believe, because we think it will be better for them. We try to convince others that our religious or political views ha...
Just for today, i'll do something nice for someone who's not expecting it. .
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
Just for today, i'll try to maintain a positive perspective, no matter what the situation. . .
Resentment causes us to stay in the past, our minds focused on the wrongs that have been done to us. It really is time to let go of it just as we would let go of something that’s too hot and that wou...
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