After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

I think a lot of what is involved in finding a noticer is to watch people and see what fruit people have on the tree. You examine that life and see if it has the kind of fruit you want to produce in your life.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.