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

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What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.

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

Mothers observe all, absorb all, give all, forgive all, offer all, suffer all, feel all, heal all, hope for all, pray for all. But most of all, Mothers

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

I am. I'm here. I'm me. are the mystery. 

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

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

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

When you begin to care too much about what everyone else says, your confidence shrinks and you start to feel like insignificant, little Jack in a strange land of intimidating giants. But when you come to realize that opinions are as diverse and plent...

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

Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.

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

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.

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

Truly there are different kinds of pain.  But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy.

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

Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair.  But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the t...

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

Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can't overdose.) —Pray; discuss your troubles with God. —List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.) —Call your mom. —Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonel...

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

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.

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

Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me. Amen

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

Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself, Then, after answering, ask yourself again, And then a third time— Chances are you'll come to realize that the issue at hand is not as dire, detrimental, or important as you first thought.

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

When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but you can find the calmest spot within them.

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

A foolish grumble of advice. Why would I want to suck it up? Why draw it in to let it fester and rot internally until it cankers my insides? I dare offer wiser words― Weep, wail, and raise your voice to the heavens as fresh wounds bleed dry! And th...

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

I prefer to solve the world's problems. They never seem as complicated as my own.

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

In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing.  And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential.

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

I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. This majestic performance of bad temper manages to overshadow my pathetic attempts at pouting. No one broods like Mother Nature, he...

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