“Hope is a condition of the soul, not a response to circumstances.”

Vaclav Havel

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” M. Scott Peck

“The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it has established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

John Donne

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”

Robert Frost

“True contentment… is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare.”

G. K. Chesterton

“Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill

“Nothing’s easier than believing we understand experiences we’ve never had.”

Gwen Bristow

“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.”

Saint Catherine of Siena

“The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.”

M. Scott Peck