4 Quotes by Karen Weinreb

The future. She had made it there. It felt like swimming in paradise: She was awake, conscious. And that was how she knew now what true love was. It was the journey first to learn who or what made your eyes shine, and then to follow that love through seeming obstacles that were gifts of awareness to its music.

Nordwind Kennels was the almost ten-acre wooded vacation resort for pets in the Bedford Hills estate area where they served gourmet dog food in temperature-controlled kennels into which they piped classical music. Everyone put their dogs there when they traveled to exotic locations to eat their own gourmet food and hear their own piped music.

Rockwell once said, 'The commonplaces of America are to me the richest subjects in art.' His paintings depict the dignity of everyday people, like the books of Charles Dickens, who in many ways was like Rockwell, appreciated by the masses in his lifetime, but not until after death by critics, and they were both the most fabulous storytellers....

It seems to me that the more you insist on happiness, the more you repeat that way of thinking, the more naturally your emotions follow. It will take time and mental effort, but the point is to work your mind into a groove, so that a positive perspective will become instinctive.