True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

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.

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

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

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

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.