With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes XV

-A loser is someone who doesn't have significant long-range goals for his life, and overall sense of purpose that gives his life meaning.
-It is only when you have worthwhile long-range goals that you are able to resist destructive pleasures day by day.
-The winner has two qualities: he has well-thought-out goals and the courage to pursue those goals.
-The winner has anticipated the rejection and with a positive attitude he sets about constructively trying to figure out how he can make specific college serve the larger purposes and goals of his life.
-Billy McDonald. I am going to fight it with everything I have. Through the ensuing months, the frequent returns to the hospital, he never said: 'Why me?'
-Life's winners have three great qualities:
1. They each remember to count their blessings.
2. They do not see life in terms of its obstacles, but in terms of its possibilities.
3. They are courageous.
-I was the only person in the country that day to go from Boston to Portland on the train.
-The essence of education is to lead people out of themselves.
-We are just not dying to read the next novel in English, or to learn the subjunctive in Latin, or to master the glories of Algebra. These things are unnatural. But most of us know that it is good for you and so you come along cheerfully with some semblance of enthusiasm.
-My prayer for you, then, is that you will risk suspending disbelief, that you will risk opening yourselves to new insights, which will lead you out of your confined outlook on life to delight in the new and broader and richer perspectives that are as yet behind you.
-To Jesus, no one was unimportant. Jesus did not divide people into categories, most important to least important. There were no little people to him. No one was contemptible to Jesus. No one was unworthy of his time. No one was unimportant. This was the rabbi who taught that 'he who wold be greatest among you must be the servant of all'
-What did Jesus mean when he said 'to receive the Kingdom of God like a child?
1. To be open and receptive.
2. To be honest about our feelings.
3. To let things go.