In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. Work hard. Don’t quit. Be appreciative. Be thankful. Be grateful. Be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.
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When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that—that is what life is.
What greater thing is there for two humans than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other?
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
“I am much less sure about most things than I used to be. But I feel the pull of the love of God all the time, and I don’t care nearly so much about not understanding.” – Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, Author.
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to somebody else.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.
When we can accept our humanity and the perpetrator’s, we can write a new story, one in which we are no longer cast as a victim but as a survivor, even perhaps a hero.
