Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.
Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.