It is O.K. to ask why, for then you are geared to look for the answer.


Maybe there is no answer to your question. Just hold it to your bosom, then, and recognize the majesty in mystery. If the answer were given now perhaps you wouldn’t understand it anyway.


So, you’ve received bad breaks. What you have to work for is that they don’t break you.


A momentary lapse, though it may be extremely hurtful and we think at the time that it is everlasting, when the hurt finally dissipates and our perspective grows wiser, we then understand that the moment of lapse does not nullify a lifetime of being at one’s best.


We must not assume that because something at present is not explainable that it has no explanation.


What may now appear to be an aberration may later become clear.


It is so easy to walk to the thermostat and turn down the heat. Would that it would be so simple in life!


Part of our waking up occurs when we are tried at the point where we thought we were strongest, but it turns out it was our weakest.


We must be alert to not only what goes on around us but to what goes on in us.


Sometimes our best is ameliorated by someone else’s worst.


Do you realize that it takes the same muscles to smile as it does to sneer?


Our mistakes are not set in concrete; our weaknesses can turn into strengths if we allow ourselves to be tutored by higher standards.