Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.
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