What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

I already had my bad luck,' she say. 'I had enough to keep me laughing the rest of my life.

They'd been attacked by lions, stampeded by elephants, flooded out by rains, made war on by "natives." The tales they told were simply incredible. There they sat on a heavily antimacassared horsehair sofa, two prim and proper ladies in ruffles and lace, telling these stupendous stories over tea.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.

Don't be determined to never have problems. Be determined to stay full of joy in the midst of your problems.

You won't become all you were created to be without trouble. You don't grow in the good times; you grow in the tough times... In the difficult times, your spiritual muscles are developed, and you gain strength, endurance and wisdom.

There are levels that you can't reach without going through a dry season, without opposition, things that are unfair. That's all leading you to bloom, to greatness, to promotion, to influence.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.