That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.

Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

To affirm is to make firm.