"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got"
"Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight." "Never say never, it WILL come back and bite you in the ass." "Don't ever accept anyone else's preconceived limitations. If there's something you want to do, there isn't any reason you can't do it." "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." "Run like hell and get the agony over with." "The greatest pleasure in life is doing the things people say we cannot do." "You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face." We're all given terrible trials sometimes, things we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they're like compliments from God. If he didn't love you and believe in you, He wouldn't give you challenges like this. They're opportunities for Grace. At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it. It's ok to lose your pride over someone you love, not ok to lose someone you love over your pride. One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. ~Chinese Proverb The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it. When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. Forgiveness isn't a once-and-done act; it involves choosing, again and again, to replace anger and resentment with understanding and love toward someone who has done you wrong" |