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

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One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed. 

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

What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.

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

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

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

Life is learning to take God's hand.....and hold on.

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

If you'd just learn to do as I say from the beginning, I wouldn't have to follow up your errors with reproving smirks and repeated 'I told you so's'.

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

I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring.

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

To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the wonders of both Heaven and Earth. But she surpassed them all and, by her pleasing nature, stayed him.

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

Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes.

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

It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation.

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

No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.

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

Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.

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

Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day.  There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over; when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under.

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

Abandoned. The word alone sends shudders down a sensitive spine, troubling the thoughts of pained souls as their hurt swells in ripples. It is a sentence of undesired solitude often pronounced on the innocent, the trusting—administered without warn...

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

Monsters excite us in this way or that. They make our pulse thrum and steal lives from the cat! They're frightening creatures, one peek and you'll see. Yet life without monsters, how dull it would be. Your tense, nervous laugh tells me you disagree?

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

" "Oh, man in the moon, send an evening star to wink at my dreary eyes, and I shall make a wish for a peaceful world that spins with no more lies. Oh, man in the moon, send the night's cool breeze to lull my leery heart, and I shall cast my fears to ...

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

Of course I want the moon. And, were you to offer it, I'd propose as a trade the stars in my eyes.

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

The sun, moon, and stars God gave to the world, but He embedded their glories in your countenance just for me. Woven in your hair are the sun's shimmering golden rays. From your face glows the pale luminescence of the moon. And in your eyes God sprin...

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

Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry, no matter how old we get.

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