Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.