More Quotes by Ann Landers
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
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.
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.
If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
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.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
