One had to adapt to circumstances and take advantage of opportunities.
God is all-powerful. If He limited Himself to doing only that which we call good, we could not call Him Almighty; He would command only one part of the universe, there would exist someone more powerful than He, watching and judging His acts.
Not always does His plan agree with what we are or what we feel, but be assured that He has a reason for all of this.
Souls too, like rivulets and plants, needed a different kind of rain : hope, faith, a reason to live. When this did not come to pass, everything in that soul died, even if the body went on living.
When a man journeys toward his destiny, often he is obliged to change paths. At other times, the forces around him are too powerful and he is compelled to lay aside his courage and yield.
But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger.
Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy-for his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.
When we delay the harvest, the fruit rots. But when we delay resolving problems, they continue to grow.
This was freedom, to feel what the heart desired, with no thought of the opinion of the rest.
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But He is deaf to those who would flee from love.
The Lord is my shepherd. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me beside still waters. And He will not let me forget the meaning of my life.
Every man can sense when he is in danger; he begins to react in strange ways, to have premonitions, to feel something in the air. And he tries to deceive himself, for he thinks himself incapable of confronting the situation. They have tried to deceive themselves till now; but there comes a moment when one must face the truth.
But life is made not of desires but of the acts of each person.
Because a man must choose. Therein lieth his strength; the power of his decisions. | It is a difficult choice; it demands that I accept the death of one people to save another. | Even more difficult is defining a path for oneself. He who maketh no choice is dead in the eyes of the Lord, though he go on breathing and walking in the streets.
Thou knowest not whereof thou speakest. There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything hath its reason for being; thou needest only distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.
Everything that could have happened but did not is carried away with the wind and leaves no trace. Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live througj. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.
A child can always teach an adult three things : to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations.
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles; he goes on.
Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occured. But none of that is important : they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild.
