I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Every day brings new choices.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in "bowed down by cares." Or anxiety, as in "Careful!" Or investment in an outcome, as in "Who cares?" The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you