The world's thy ship and not thy home.

Wherever you've been, and whatever you've done so far, your entire life was building up to this moment. Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness—a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you've gone through.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light

When I consider how my light is spent, ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide lodg'd with me useless.

NOVEMBER 1 DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED by the difficulty of keeping your focus on Me. I know that your heart's desire is to be aware of My Presence continually. This is a lofty goal; you aim toward it but never fully achieve it in this life. Don't let feelings of failure weigh you down. Instead, try to see yourself as I see you. First of all, I am delighted by your deep desire to walk closely with Me through your life.

This is the path I have set before you. As you follow it wholeheartedly, you experience abundant Life and Peace.

DO NOT SEARCH FOR SECURITY in the world you inhabit. You tend to make mental checklists of things you need to do in order to gain control of your life. If only you could check everything off your list,

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.