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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. Roy T. Bennett Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. Mother Teresa Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Menachem Begin Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved. Roy T. Bennett...

The directing mind is that which wakes itself, adapts itself, makes itself of whatever nature it wishes, and makes all that happens to appear in the way it wants. It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: The ‘what’ is in constant flux, the ‘why’ has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right here. Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man’s master or slave. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Never let the future disturb y...