It is a sophisticated spiritual challenge to not compare your spouse's weakness with another spouse's strength.

Chapter 21 teaches us to be less toxic toward ourselves.

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter.

Never look to other couples to measure your worth; look to God to fulfill your call. Don't compare yourself with other couples to measure your happiness; compare your obedience with God's design on your life to measure your faithfulness.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being

Always be yourself. Express yourself, have faith in yourself. Don't go looking for a successful personality and just duplicate it.

As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.

I watched a train come in. It was full of tourists, who (it may have been a subjective illusion) seemed to me common and worthless people, and sad into the bargain.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don't prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.