Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

Focus on the solution, not the problem

True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.