REFLECTIONS

There is no danger of developing eye strain from looking on the bright side of things.

JOYCE MEYER

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

ANDY ROONEY

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

DENIS WAITLEY

Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

DANNY THOMAS

No-one is born hating another because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

NELSON MANDELA

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

HENRY FORD

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

HENRY JAMES

Faced with changing one's mind, or proving that there is no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Dreams come a size too BIG so we can grow into them.

JOSIE BISSETT

Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it!

MAYA ANGELOU

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

SOLOMON IBN GABRIOL

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

CARL W. BUECHNER

A smile is a language that even a baby understands.

MONICA DIAMOND

Old minds are like old horses: you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Having moved to a new area, I was eager to meet people. One day I struck up a conversation with the only other woman in the gym. Pointing to two men playing squash, I said, “There’s my husband. The thin one - not the fat one.” After an uncomfortable silence, she replied, “That’s mine – the fat one.”

UNKNOWN

The big secret in life is that there is no secret.

Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.

OPRAH WINFREY

Do one thing every day that scares you.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT