Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year Quotes

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The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don't eat! Who knew?

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I'm going on a diet.  (Crud, I know) I am going to be cranky.  I am going to be irritable. I am going to be moody and sad and mean.  And, yes, I am going to be hungry.  Please don't feed me, even if I try to bite you.  Please don't tease me, I m...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that's closer to human reality.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

When words can't make it better, hold my hand and don't let go.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

There are many roads in this world that will guide you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in any form of lasting happiness. So before you step on an enticing path, figure out where it leads.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I have a funny side. I have a soft and sympathetic side. I have a serious side, and a seriously romantic side. I have lots of sides; it's the main course I haven't quite figured out.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Life demands much. Give more.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Life works on the same principle as a boomerang. It's simple, really—what you send out you get back. A smiling face receives many smiles. Friendliness finds itself surrounded by friends. Giving hugs creates hugs. Offered help is reciprocated. In co...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head—a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chance of survival.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

They say it's impossible. I refuse to believe it. The journey may be difficult and the desired end unlikely. My patience and commitment may be tested by something that won't happen overnight. It may be that I veer off the path or quit before reaching...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Remember this—the journey is part of the dream.  Whatever it is you're chasing, so long as you are actively moving in the right direction, the dream is coming true.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Goals are my north star.  My compass.  The map that guides me along the road I wish to travel.  Goals are motivations with wind in their sails—they carry me forward despite the storms.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year