Words for My Soul

“Laughing is better, easier, and it doesn’t smear your mascara.”
~Lynn

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
-Henry Clay (1777-1852), politician and orator

“You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.” – Galileo

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
By Sir Francis Bacon

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” — Paulo Coehlo

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
- Pearl S. Buck

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”
-Emily Dickinson

“People need your love the most when they deserve it the least.” ~John Harrigan

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” ~Mildred Barthel