Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost.

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.