Quotes i like from The Nightly Book of Positive Quotations...

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier, that none like to see brought into their drawing room...

Kind words can be short and easy to speak.. But their echoes are truly endless...

The healthy, strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it.. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul..

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your backs...

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship...

Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs...

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tensions...

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger.. But it is often wrong...

Judge each day not by its harvest, but by the seeds you plant...

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: Find what interests you and that you can do well, put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability that you have...

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgives but do not forget...

Blame yourself if you have no branches of leaves; do not accuse the sun of partiality..

Everything should be made as simple as possible... but not simpler..

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable...

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon...

Anything in life that we do not accept will simple make trouble for us until we make peace with it...

Character is simply habit long enough continued...

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it...

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is only when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear...

If it is working, keep doing it.. If it is not working, stop doing it.... If you don't know what to do, don't do anything...

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself...

Tolerance is the positive and cordinal effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them...

If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift...

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out of it...

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand he attrition of constant close contact...

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.. Mother would come out and say, "You are tearing up the grass." "We are not raising grass." Dad would reply.. "We are raising boys.."

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach..

Never reach out your hand unless you are willing to extend your arm...

Honest without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility..