Smilingual Thoughts 10/5/22 KINDNESS
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us. One can never pay in gratitude: One can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life. Life does give back “in kind”. It’s your…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/23/22 MINUTES = MOMENTS
There is more to life than increasing its speed. The whole of life is but a moment of time. Make each moment count. For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion.…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/22/22 TRY
“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed wonders. No one knows what he can do until he tries. Nobody who ever gave their best effort regretted it. Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try 2 do something beyond what you have already mastered, you…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/20/22 NOW
Forever is composed of nows. For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, “It might have been”. It’s not what if, it’s what now. The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. Past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/19/22 BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED
Bloom where you are planted; even amidst weeds. Be your best right where you are. The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy. Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/17/22 CONSISTENCY
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. It takes twenty years to become an overnight .There must be consistency in direction.The secret to success is constancy to purpose. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. By putting forward the hands of the clock you…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/16/22 YOU CAN YOU WILL
You Can. You Will. “This is where I am, but this not who I am.” You may be in a limited environment now, but do not allow the environment to get into you. You are not who people say you are. You are what God says you are. People do not have the final say. God has the final say. Stretch. Grow. Learn.…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/15/22 DETERMINATION
If it is to be, it is up to me. There are only two options regarding commitment. You are either IN or you are OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between. Four short words has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/14/22 NEXT TIME
“How long should u try? Until.” There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is. Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. Sometimes you have to do a lot of things to…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/13/22 TODAY
Never think more of a rainy day ahead than the sunshine today. You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. One day at a time–this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/12/22 ADVERSITY
Every path has its puddle. If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably does not lead anywhere. Adversity introduces a man to himself. Mostly when things go wrong, they are meant to go wrong, so we can outgrow what we have to outgrow. Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/11/22 REMEMBRANCE
Freedom is never free. In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. How important it is for us to recognize & celebrate our heroes & she-roes! As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/10/22 SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. The spirit of a person’s life is ever shedding some power. We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/9/22 PEACE
Better bend than break. When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. The solution to stress management lies in how we perceive the stresses in our lives. It’s not really the events taking place in our lives that cause stress. Stress depends entirely on…[Read more]

Smilingual Thoughts 9/8/22 TURN THE PAGE
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. Don’t have too fixed a notion of the path, but rather have some idea of the kind of things that most appeal to you. Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is…[Read more]