Quotes from Walter Inglis Anderson

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

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

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

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

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

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

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

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.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

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

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

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

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.