L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was a moment of pain, sadness, despair, or fear. This work involves above all the regular, disciplined practice of moment-to-moment awareness or mindfulness, the complete owning of each moment of your experience, good, bad, or ugly. This is the essence of full catastrophe living.

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.