Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.

Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.

Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.

Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.

One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality

Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.

Relationships are the flavors of life.

They can’t denied who I am.

You need to make effort and commit time to do what you love.

The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

The resolute look on life closes plenty of doors.

Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes your regular illusion.

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

disappointment is devastating, even if it’s something that you didn’t really expect to occur.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

I know, for example, that Mr. Petersen did not experience the flow of time in the same way that I did during those last sixteen months. He told me often, particularly towards the end, that for him time had become a slow, peaceful drift. If I had to guess why this was the case, I'd say that maybe it was because this was time he never expected to have. Or maybe it was more than he was now letting time drift. There was a certain type of contentment in his outlook, which never strayed too far into the future. His life had become simple and uncluttered, and when you're living like that, I think time can seem to stretch out for ever. Matters only change when you start fretting about all the things you need to get done. The more stuff you try to force into it, the less accommodating time becomes.