35 Quotes by Walter Anderson

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

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

Nothing quells anxiety like action!

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.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.

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.

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