While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground. “That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” – Arab Proverb

“A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.” – English Proverb
“A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.” – Persian Proverb
“A cat has nine lives.” – Proverb of Unknown Origin

All too often people take life, and all of the great things that it offers, for granted. People realize how much something means to them only after it is taken away.

Sometimes, God doesn’t give us the things we want
because He knows the things we truly desire,
desires that we may not even be aware of
because we do not truly know ourselves.

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

When you realize you are loved,
could there be any logical reason
you should not love yourself as much as others have cared for you?

The poor do not need our compassion or our pity; they need our help.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.

If you can find beauty in the colors of a small flower,
then you still have hope…
If you can find pleasure in the movement of a butterfly,
then you still have hope…

Take a couple of whole months, clean them thoroughly of all Bitterness, Rumors, Hate and Jealousy; in other words, make them as fresh and as clean as possible.