Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.

Replace those thoughts of worry with thoughts of hope, faith, and victory.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.

Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great British pulpiteer, had said in a sermon almost exactly a hundred years before: The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the more we want to pray.