More Quotes by Ann Landers
Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.
Being interested is more important than being interesting.
