As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

You're so ashamed of your past; drop it! You're so proud of your past; drop it!

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.