When God works in our lives, those without faith like to call it chance. Those who believe call it a miracle. I don't know where you land on that scale, but I'm suggesting God is not as distant as you may believe.

Seek dharma, child. Find out how you fit in, who you are. Remember that everything around you has a purpose. Even you, child.

But if life could be worse, didn't that mean it could also be better?'" As it was, he settled for odd jobs, harvesting occasional crops, living a life that was destined never to rise above the menial. He was proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.

Remember, Sang Ly. When you find your purpose—and you will find your purpose—never let go. Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

Sometimes the roads we choose in life are just messy.

Was all this mess just part of God's master plan?

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

I am neither spurred on by excessive optimism nor in love with high ideals, but am merely concerned with the fate of the individual human being - that infinitesimal unit on whom a world depends, and in whom, if we read the meaning of the Christian message aright, even God seeks his goal.

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.