"We are not exactly doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." -C.S. Lewis
"Take it while we can; live it, fight it, laugh in it... take whatever life gives and call it ours; what danger, what chance, what love, what happiness." -Winston Graham through the character of Captain Ross Poldark
"Regardless of what's going on, soak it up like a sponge. It's LIFE. Rich and chocolatey and sometimes bitter, but delicious just the same." -I might have said this.
"Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies..." -Elizabeth Gilbert
"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery. He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.” -- Thornton Wilder
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." - Edmund Burke
"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip, or you talk with (someone), and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating… It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom… Millions live like this… without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car…. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them…" -Anias Nin
