Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.Collection: Thankful
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Attitude
It is your choices that make you uniquely you.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Hope
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.Collection: Trust
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.Collection: Relationship
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.Collection: Motivational
Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.Collection: 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.Collection: Thankful
The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.Collection: Attention
At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.Collection: Country
You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.Collection: 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.Collection: Anxiety
The quickest way to relieve anxiety is ACTION!Collection: Anxiety
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.Collection: Long
Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really areCollection: Risk
Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.Collection: Trust
Beware by whom you are called sane.Collection: Sane
True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Anger
Nothing quells anxiety like action!Collection: Anxiety
Focus on the solution, not the problemCollection: Persistence
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.Collection: Hurt
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.Collection: Change
Our lives improve only when we take chances.Collection: Truth
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.Collection: Success
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.Collection: Positive