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

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Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict.

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

Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly.

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

Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something ―that it possible, that it significant, that it real.

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

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation.  For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.

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

When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully; treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little ...

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

You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.

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

Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especially their altruism and devotion—I still don't believe in them.  For I know the truth.  Only one such miracle worker exists ...

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

I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous.   I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. I can't fathom. 

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

You were formed inside a borrowed womb—a nourishing safe haven for months—then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.

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

You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized.  It's okay.  Life was never about what you do, but what you do. 

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

To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin.

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

Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.

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

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

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

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action.....no matter what.  So you're afraid?  Be afr...

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

It's impossible to be involved in all situations, but there's no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference.

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

Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.

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

The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

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

Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home.

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