Good intentions will not help a person who is on the wrong track.

Interesting people are people who are interested. – Teen Esteem.

If you treat a person as he or she is , they will stay as they are. But if you treat them as if they were what they ought to be, they will become that bigger and better person. – Johann von Goethe.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer up someone else. – Mark Twain.

Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand. – Seneca.

Do you know a soul downhearted
Needing cheer along life’s way?
If you do, then share your gladness,
Freely speak kind words today.
– Beverly J. Anderson.

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can. – John Wesley.

Kindness always pays but it pays most when you don’t do it for pay.

One kind word can warm up three winter months. – Japanese Proverb.

The best portion of a good life is little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. – William Wordsworth.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses. – Chinese Proverb.

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A Harvard University survey shows:

Six out of every ten juvenile delinquents have fathers who drink to excess.
Also many of the mothers drink to excess.
Three out of four are permitted by parents to come and go as they please.
Three out of five are from homes where their is discord between the parents.
Seven out of ten are from homes where there is no group or family recreation.
Four out of five have parents who take no interest in their children’s friends.
Four out of five delinquent boys say their mother was indifferent to them.
Three out of five delinquent boys say that their father was indifferent to them.

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Ten suggestions for getting on with people:

1) Guard your tongue: Say less than you think.
2) Make promises sparingly. Keep them faithfully.
3) Never let an opportunity pass to say a kind word.
4) Be interested in others, their pursuits, work, families.
6) Be cheerful. Don’t dwell on minor aches and disappointments.
7) Keep an open mind. Discuss, but don’t argue. Disagree without being disagreeable.
8) Be careful of others feelings.
9) Pay no attention to ill-natured remarks about you. Live so that no one will believe them.
10) Don’t be anxious about getting credit. Just do your best and be patient.

– Bits & Pieces.

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Fighting for what is right and for the truth may be be hard, but it is the only way that a person can respect themselves and believe that they are living a worthy life.

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Stand up for the truth even if you are standing alone. Stand up for yourself, truth, love, honesty and the one you love. No one said that doing the right thing was easy, just that it is the decent thing to do that will make an important impact on your life and society.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.