Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.

Hindsight provides new eyes.

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

Our greatest dreams are never out of reach, only out of belief.

Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path. Enjoy the flowers that are there for your pleasure. Tune in to the sunrise, the little children, the laughter, the rain, and the birds. Drink it all in... there is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Russians, Communists, Northern Koreans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Taliban, and both northerners and southerners in America are some of the people we've been encouraged at various times to call enemies and to hate. The list is long, and as time passes, those we were assigned to hate we later were told should be removed from our hate list. The enemy is obviously hatred itself. Have empathy for your assigned enemy.

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.