With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XIX

-It is a risk to present yourself to others as you really are. It takes courage. Most people hide behind masks. They are afraid that if people always see them the way they really are, they won't like them. Therefore they always wear a mask. But in my experience people admire the courage of those who don't hide, who make themselves vulnerable, who dare to risk openly revealing themselves, expressing their hopes and their desires.
-Life is tough. It is tough even for the lucky.
-Life doesn't imitate television.
-Real men don't run. They stay and fight.
-One of this school's principal aims is to challenge you now so you will develop the confidence and toughness to face life's future challenges.
-It is precisely at that point when you are under the pressure of conflicting simultaneous demands, or when you are knocked down, face in the dirt, that you discover who you are. In that moment of truth you have to decide whether you are going to cut and run or stay and fight. If you have the courage to stay and fight you will have to dig deep within you to find the strength to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and go on.
-Those who are really strong, who are really tough, don't deny the hurt, they don't pretend there's no pain. They face the hurt and pain and they struggle to get up and to go on.
-It is certainly a long-standing goal of this School to prepare a small group of young men who learn today courageously to face up to life's inevitable demands, setbacks, and injustices and who therefore will have developed the inner strength to be the world's leaders tomorrow.
-Nothing takes as much courage in life, as risking opening ourselves up to others.
-Only those who are strong will risk such vulnerability. Only the truly strong will dare to be tender.
-Every failure, every defeat, every bit of suffering that we experience makes us stronger. Stronger because we become more aware of the sufferings of others must bear.
-My beloved children, now and in the years ahead you will suffer and fail and know despair. My prayer for you is that when you experience such suffering you will dig deep and from your suffering  build the spiritual muscle you will need to cope with life's many difficulties, and that in your own suffering you will grow to understand with compassion the suffering of others.