Trust is like a vase… once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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.
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.
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.
