…most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. – Anne Lamott

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them. – Margaret Mitchell

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. – Askhari Johnson Hodari

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. – Jean Vanier

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come. – C.S. Lewis

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. – Askhari Johnson Hodari

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. – René Daumal

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. – René Daumal

The story of my recent life.’ I like that phrase. It makes more sense than ‘the story of my life’, because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. – Mitch Albom

The story of my recent life.’ I like that phrase. It makes more sense than ‘the story of my life’, because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. – Mitch Albom

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it? – Ben Carson

The story of my recent life.’ I like that phrase. It makes more sense than ‘the story of my life’, because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. – Mitch Albom