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.
It is your choices that make you uniquely you...
The quickest way to relieve anxiety is ACTION!
The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.
Nothing quells anxiety like action!
Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It’s sound advice.
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.
Beware by whom you are called sane.
Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are.
Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.
If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
Focus on the solution, not the problem.
True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort...
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.
I have been putting words like ‘abnormal’ and ‘deviant’ in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.
One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life.