You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.

I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.

It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth—all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

The steps to success may be different than what you anticipate. Truth told, most attempts in life do not deliver the expected results. So alter your perception, your vision, your outlook, but do not abandon the end goal.