Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.