Archives - December 2017

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Time is a physician that heals every grief.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language,

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

The return makes one love the farewell.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Why is Christmas Eve such a happy day? I say a little hymn about happy, happy Christmas.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes.

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.