The following are my favorite words to live by. ********************* Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. (Abraham Lincoln) ...suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. (Romans 5:3b-4) Be not simply good; be good for something. (Thoreau) Silence is one great art of conversation. (Hazlitt) The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Emerson) What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. ( Confucious, c.500 B.C.) We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. (Edwin Markham) It matters not how long we live, but how. (Bailey) A merry heart does good like a medicine. (Proverbs 17:22) Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. (Addison) My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so. (Ingersoll) |