Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

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

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.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

The way that other people judge me is none of my business.