life and living

7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important 1. Use their name.2. Express sincere gratitude.3. Do more listening than talking.4. Talk more about them than about you.5. Be authentically interested.6. Be sincere in your praise.7. Show you care.

— Roy T. Bennett

A birthday is a glorious day filled with good laughter, gladness and great memories.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Abstract conversations are my favorite, for they unveil true convictions.

— Parul Wadhwa

Acceptance" is a very important word in our lives. People drive themselves into madness and death thinking about the chasm that exists between their ideals and their actual reality that they are living. There must be a balance between improvement of one's self and one's circumstances and the acceptance of reality. There is a beautiful dance that one must learn, which involves embracing the reality of your life as you would embrace a Latin dance partner on the ballroom floor, and moving that partner (your reality) in graceful strides, towards where you want to be situated, on that dance floor. If you dance with no partner (your current reality), you will arrive at your destination empty. Empty. That is, if you ever arrive at all. But when you dance with that partner, embracing and accepting it for all of its flaws and its redeeming qualities, you will be able to move across that dance floor as a full, whole person. Wherever you end up stopping in that ballroom, you will stop there as a whole person, not an empty one. So, accept the mistakes that have been done unto you and the mistakes that you have done. Accept the fact that you didn't grow up perfectly, and you are not perfect now. Accept, embrace, love the people who are given to you to love. And love yourself just as you are.

— C. JoyBell C.

Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.

— Edie Littlefield Sundby

Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.

— Richie Norton

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

— Roy T. Bennett

A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A closed heart opens no mind.

— Fakeer Ishavardas