With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes X

-It is always a losing battle to fight against things you cannot change.
-In my experience, it is foolish to expect things to go well.
-In the world, said Jesus, you shall have tribulation.
-The happy adolescent, the happy adult, is pessimistic: he expects that things will not turn out as he hopes.
-I urge you to hold onto high hopes, to aspire to great things. But I also urge you to be pessimists: to expect things to go badly, to go wrong; to expect that many of your hopes will not be realized. Much of the immense happiness I feel in my own life comes from being a hopeful pessimist. If you are a hopeful pessimist, you will again and again be surprised by joy when some of your hopes are, in fact, realized.
-Accept what you can't change. Expect the worst. Make and inventory of your worries.
-I am talking about prayer from the heart, prayer that is often beyond words, prayer that is offered with our whole being.
-There are people you care more about even than you care about yourself. This usually happens when you have children of your own.
-It is a tough world out there, and to live in that tough world a boy needs to gain the self-confidence that he can face up to burdensome responsibilities on his own. He needs to realize that he is tough enough to handle his own problems, to survive on his own.
-I say this not to demoralize you; I say it because it's a reality and we need to base our lives on reality.
-Life spares no one. Every one of us has weaknesses. Every one of us is vulnerable and has to deal with lack of drive and failure and disappointment.
-The trophies we long to win often turn to dust even as we clasp them in triumph.
-Socrates said the wisest man is the one who realizes how little he knows. I submit that the strongest and toughest and most self-sufficient man is the one who realizes how vulnerable and frail he is.
-The beginning of wisdom is the realization that, if you want to stand on your two feet, you must learn to kneel on your own two knees.