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Sometimes the weight you need to lose isn’t on your body.

Despite all the bad days and mean people, I still believe in good days and kind people. Plus, there are always dogs.

If you have nothing but a caring family, believe me, you are rich.

I’ve learned that you can keep going long after you think you can’t.

In my world there are no bad kids, just impressionable, conflicted young people wrestling with emotions and impulses, trying to communicate their feelings and needs the only way they know how.

Kindness: Loaning someone your strength instead of reminding them of their weakness.

Tell people what you love about them. Less criticism, more compliments.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.

Sometimes all you can do is accept there’s not much you can do. And sometimes all you can control is how well you let go of control.

Do what you can, when you can, with as much love and honesty as you can, and when you can’t, rest.

Your current situation is not your final destination.

Sometimes a breakthrough comes after the biggest breakdown of your life. Hang in there.

In this life we are all just walking up the mountain, and we can sing as we climb or we can complain about our sore feet. Whichever we choose, we still gotta do the hike. I decided a long time ago singing made a lot more sense.

Being told you’re appreciated is one of the simplest yet most incredible things you can ever hear.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Give yourself credit for the days you made it through when you thought you couldn’t.

Be kind to one another. Say a word or two of encouragement. You never know who may need those gentle reminders more than anything today.

Sometimes you don’t need words to make you feel better. You just need the nearness of your dog.

If today gets difficult, remember the smell of coffee, the way sunlight bounces off a window, the sound of your favorite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on, the color of the sky at dusk, and that we are here to take care of each other.

If speaking kindly to plants can help them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do.