“ ... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. ”
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
~ Abraham Verghese
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches.
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
