All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

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.

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

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It is better to hope than to mope!

Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.