We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.
The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move. )
Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.
Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail
You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you've got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen.
There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.