Why bad things happen to good people

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.