Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids – all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to God. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With Him, we must be ready for anything.
That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.
In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.