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

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No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.

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

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

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

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

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

Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute.

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

Okay, let's put this another way―if what you're about to say wouldn't look good permanently engraved on your tombstone,

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

When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can't see it. And you'd never ask someone to drown with a smile on his face.

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

Last night I danced. My body rose from its slump for the first time since the beginning of sorrows—my fingers beckoning to the stars at arm's length, back arching as tingles bubbled up my spine, hips caught in a silent tempo while on tiptoe I twirl...

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

The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. Tha...

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

Live your day and live it well. It's yours whether you want it or not.

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

A snake bites your ankle. Recoiling, you scream. Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream... ...where a man bites your ankle. Expecting no guile, 'Again,' softly falls from your lips with a smile. Yet, the man and the snake are the same. Your per...

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

Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for...

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

Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.

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

As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.

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

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the...

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

All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted you.  That would have changed everything.

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

Dreams aren't finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don't suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the dream―all of it from beginning to forevermore. You're on that journey right now;...

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

Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.

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

There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit crumbles. Some say that after much grief and drowning in tears, it is possible to pick up the pieces and carefully repair what was s...

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