Essay 10: Life and Its Challenges

We live in a world torn by conflicting interests, jealousy, aggressiveness, and so many forms of enslavement...all of these are the consequences of SIN, from the first to the latest sin that has darkened the horizontal of mankind. Left to ourselves, we would have been unable to overcome such destructive forces. That is why God promised and sent the Holy Spirit as the divine healing power that can undo the tragedies of division, mistrust, and hatred brought about by human sinfulness.

There are many things in life that will catch your eye. But only a few will catch your heart.... Each day is a little life. We don't know who we are until we see what we can do...until we make peace with who we are, we'll never be contented with what we have. Great choices come and go and no matter how much we try to decide, we always end up with the same story...

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Believe in yourself that you can and you're halfway there...we can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

All of the significant battles are waged within the self. Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify. It does not require many words to speak the truth. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Our life is what our thoughts make it that makes us do commitments...in which it is a line that we must cross....it is the difference between dreaming and doing.

In life, you can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must be exchanged for it. There is only one success and that is to be able to spend your life in your own way. Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments and there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.

Every day is a good day. Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Every exit is an entry somewhere else. No man is a failure who is enjoying life. Only those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

In life, there are going to be some things in this world that's going to make it hard for us to smile. But whatever we do, through all the rain and the pain, we have to keep our sense of humor and also never forget to smile...

Think you can, think you can't; either way you'll be right. Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. Fear always springs from ignorance...when you get into a tight place, and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and time that the tide will turn. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

What lies behind us
And what lies before us
Are tiny matters compared
To what lies within Us