“There is not only a physical deafness which largely cuts people off from social life; there is also a “hardness of hearing” where God is concerned.” – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
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“Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
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“Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.” – Edward Tenner
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’ – John Greenleaf Whittier
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“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.” – Maya Angelou
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“Our task is to become fluent with the life we’re leading” – John Cage
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“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… It saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, & the waste of spirits.” – Hannah More
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“The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary on it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.” – Joe Frazier
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