Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.