It is too easy to interpret happiness as a condition of existence in which one receives happiness, or becomes happy. The truth is, the key to happiness is for one TO BE happy, where TO BE is an action verb.

Your smile elevates me, warms my heart, validates my existence.

There is no requital for the revenant reverie of a thing we can never have.

So hard to describe how I know that it's true, I don't quite know where to begin. Like conveying the sight of a sunrise to someone who's always slept in.

I’m grateful for the little things you do for me. Not to show that you love me, rather, because you love me.

It helps to treat time as it is—a continuum. That is to say, there is no such thing as the past. And likewise, no such thing as the future. ‘Past’ and ‘future’ are just monikers for concepts invented by man to simplify the processes and order of life. The truth is, time takes place continuously in the present.

Things we have done and said and experienced, or things that have been said and done to us, those are recorded. Facsimiles of a bygone present. It’s data, more or less. What we do with that data, with that information, has impact on how we feel and what we choose to do in the now.

The future is as much an unknown masterpiece as your mind, imagination, and conduct can fashion.

It’s better to beat a dead horse than to worry about whether or not it might recover.

Sometimes it's better to beat a dead horse than to worry about whether or not it might recover.