Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth...

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.

You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.