With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes II

-All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
-Knowledge and wisdom are not the same.
-I see so many people just going through the motions: get into a good school so you can get into a good college so you can get a good job so you can get a better job so you can get rich and die. I want more than knowledge; I want wisdom. I don't want to exist; I want to live.
-Remember to be modest.
-Greed does not bring happiness. If you want to be happy, you have to go beyond self-interest.
-Choose to live. Born originals. How comes it to pass that we die copies? Given the opportunity to live, how comes it to pass that so many choose only to exist?
-The only life worth living is the hard life. The hard life is the better way. Whatever else the harder way is, it is not dull. It is, I would submit, much more exciting, much more rewarding, and, dare we say it, much more fun.
-It may well be that the most valuable experiences we have in adolescence are not our triumphs or our successes or our popularity, but rather our disappointments and defeats and rejections. We grow more through our sufferings than through our successes.
-How to react to life's realities?
1. Sit down and make a list of all the things I have to do, all the obligations, all the worries.
2. To do something, anything, to get my mind off my own problems.
3. Cut problems up in smaller pieces.
4. Count your blessings.
5. Ask for help.
6. Seek of Divine help in prayer.
-If a school is preparing young people for life, and it is, it would be cruelly wrong to give young people the impression that life is devoid of pain, to give adolescents the impression that in life you don't have to get along with people you don't like or perform tasks that are difficult or unpleasant.
-A mature attitude toward life begins with the premise that life does not accommodate itself to us; we must accommodate ourselves to life. And life often presents us with difficulties.
-We have to adjust ourselves to life's inconveniences, to life's disappointments. We don't get everything we want. We can waste a lot of energy blaming people, complaining or lamenting. But people who have a mature attitude expect that they will have to come to grips with the disappointments life doles out.
-We are not victims. Just because life does not fulfill your every hope does not mean that you have to adopt the attitude of a victim.
-Lowering of expectation alone as an attitude can be nothing more than craven pessimism, disillusioned cynicism. It must always be accompanied by idealism.