One of the things that I try to teach my daughters is that you can’t always control what happens to you. You can control how you react to it.

It’s kind of like the old is your glass half empty or half full question.

Well said. I couldn’t agree more.

I think people often confuse the word “pleasure” with the owrd “fulfillment.”

Once can look for pleasure and try to find pleasure in daily life. They can try to discover pleasure in all that they do.

I see personal fulfillment as something distinctly different. It involves many things, including building relationships that we have with others, learning and growing, self-actualization and self-definition, reaching one’s highest potential and levels of creativity, and simply being contented with where you’re at and where you’re going. All of these things take initiative, action, and expansion on one’s part.