The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.
The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.
I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you’re plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won’t come out straight.
Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.
The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you’re not in any shape to save anyone else. You can’t be a lighthouse when you’re underwater yourself.
…The most important thing, I think. You can’t run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it’s part of you.
Generally, crises were Mom’s domain. Dad’s job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.
How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world?The answer came in a question, Ruby.God, in reply, asked, “How can you?
Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you’re the one in charge of the universe.
A person must have principles, Epiphany. That’s the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.
Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.
That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.