I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

The next time a challenging situation presents itself, take a pause and make the conscious choice to meet it with curiosity or humor or the knowledge that this too shall pass.

have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

All worrying will do is make you live through the misery twice.

I'm talking about a deep connection with our highest selves, and an unshakable ability to forgive our lowest. I'm talking about loving ourselves enough to let go of guilt, resentment, and criticism and embrace compassion, joy, and gratitude.

Doubt is resistance, faith is surrender. Worry is resistance, joy is surrender.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine.

He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears.  'Come in! come in!' he sobbed.  'Cathy, do come.  Oh, do—once more!  Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time, Catherine, at last!