All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
Some days, doing “the best we can” may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.
The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.
Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Our life is full of brokenness – broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God’s faithful presence in our lives.
When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.