Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

No good deed ever goes wasted.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.