True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.
A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.
Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.
It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.
I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.
I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.