"By forgiving someone, it does not mean that we condone what they have done to us. It simply means that we release the anger and resentment that we feel so that we can move forward with our lives."
--Anon_
"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
Maurice Maeterlinck, 1862-1949
Belgian Poet and Playwright
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
American Supreme Court Justice
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
French Author, Aviator