Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

Choose good friends. Friends help to determine your future. You will tend to be like them and to be found where they choose to go. Remember, the path we follow in this life leads to the path we follow in the next.

God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.

Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of our own rationalization, we say silently to ourselves, 'I'm just too weak,' or 'I'm not cut out for better things.' Others soar beyond our meager accomplishments. Envy and discouragement take their toll. .

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values