One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.
Adventures are never fun while you're having them.
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.