"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."

~ Viktor Frankl

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-happy/266805/?single_page=true#ixzz3HMxyKJW9

"Everyone can change tomorrow. Everyone solves problems tomorrow. But the only changes that matter are the ones I make today. Tomorrow is the easiest day I'll ever live. Today is the scary one, which is probably why I've spent so much time avoiding it."

~ Josh Riebock

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."

~ Blaise Pascal

"Remember that a pail with a pinhole loses as much as the pail pushed right over. A whole life can be lost in minutes wasted… in the small moments missed."

~ Ann Voskamp

www.aholyexperience.com

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known." 

- A. A. Milne, Pooh's Little Instruction Book.

"Never condemn each other. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a swamp that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgement." 

~ St. Seraphim of Sarov

"One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

~ Moliere

"Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are rare." 

~ J. Oswald Sanders

 “The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” 

~ Chinese Proverb

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”

~ Harold Kushner

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

~ Howard Thurman

So, maybe God does have a wise purpose in letting us grow old and weak:

"I think God has planned the strength and beauty of youth to be physical. But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we'll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty which is forever. And so we'll be eager to leave the temporary, deteriorating part of us and be truly homesick for our eternal home. If we stayed young and strong and beautiful, we might never want to leave."

~ J. Robertson McQuilkin

former president of Columbia Bible College in SC

(seen in Our Daily Bread, June 10, 2009)

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." 

~ G.K. Chesterton

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

~ Albert Einstein