It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

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.

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

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.