"People say true friends must always hold hands, but  true  friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there."

How people play the game shows something of their character.  How they lose shows all of it.

Life is a grindstone.  But whether it grinds us or polishes us depends on the stuff of which we are made.

There is nothing wrong in having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it.

Happiness multiplies as we divide it with others.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

The most important things in life are not things.

Smiles never go up in price or down in value.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

-- Raymond Inmon

Sometimes when we are feeling hopeless, we neglect to care for ourselves, forgetting a better environment will give us a stronger attitude, even toward the most difficult problems.

We must learn our own best methods for being refreshed -- ways that allow angels to whisper to us. They should be simple, inexpensive, and accessible daily.

How does it feel when someone tells us we should play basketball when we don't want to? Often, it angers us that someone else is telling us what to do. After we have been told we should do something many times, we begin to believe it and forget how we really feel. Even though we have forgotten what we wanted to do, we feel angry, often without realizing it.

Such hidden anger can leave us feeling badly without knowing why.

It is important to know when we are angry, and to say so. There are healthy ways of expressing anger without blaming others.

Saying we are angry, and thereby claiming it as our own feeling and not something others force on us, is a way to express it which also affirms our right to be angry.

Some of us have been so frightened of anger that we closed off the dialogue in our relationships when angry feelings came out.

Some of us have wasted our energy by focusing anger on people who weren't really important to us. Do we truly want them to become so important?

Yet, perhaps the important relationships got frozen because we weren't open and respectful with our anger. It isn't possible to be close to someone without being angry at times.