One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.
Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.
- Topic: Laughter, Life
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When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.
When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
Never eat more than you can lift.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.
There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.