So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance. A person's who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery.

Let the end come, even if it is hard, then at least we shall know whether we are finally going to win through or go under.

The Knock at the Door by Ina Boudier-Bakker.

The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated.

The truth is that your spirits don't rise until you get way down.

When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

I felt changed and a little crazy. But though I was still like a stained and slightly buckled jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing, now there were at least a few border pieces in place.

that getting all of one's addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.

I've managed to get some work done nearly every day of my adult life, without impressive financial success. Yet I would do it all over again in a hot second, mistakes and doldrums and breakdowns and all. Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems.