Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.

If you want self-esteem.” “Do estimable acts” ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir

In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them.

There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa, " he whispered. "I can't afford those things.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

You might slip, you might slide You might stumble and fall by the roadside But don't you ever let nobody drag your spirit down Remember you're walking up to heaven, don't let nobody turn you around

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.