"When things come to the worse, they generally mend."

-- Susanna Moodie

“I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why not me?' and realized that I might be able to help other kids with diabetes.”
“There's no weakness in forgiveness.”
“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
“When people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are more likely to make a choice, are more confident in their decisions, and are happier with what they choose.”
“God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.”
“The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.”
“It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.”

Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “Books Do Furnish a Room: Book 10 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.141, University of Chicago Press
“The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.”

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