Deborah Norville
Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.Collection: Thankful
When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.Collection: Amazing
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.Collection: Mom
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.
Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.
I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.
I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.
I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.
The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.
My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.
When my mother passed away I was 20.
Religious people are happier.
It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.
Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.Collection: Inspirational
People who feel positively think differently. They think better.Collection: Positive
If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.Collection: Dog
Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.Collection: Arrows
I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.Collection: Thinking
There are days-depression is a part of it-when if all you do is get dressed, take a shower and put on your makeup, then it is a good day. Your goals have to be much lower. But if you take one tiny little step, then you can take another and another.Collection: Depression
Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.Collection: Inspirational
What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that.Collection: Thinking