If you want to be well off and yet easily manage to become something, then forget God, never let yourself really become aware, never let it become really clear to you that it is he who has created you from nothing; proceed on the presupposition that a human being does not have time to waste on keeping in mind the one to whom he infinitely and unconditionally owes everything. ... Forget it and be noisy along with the crowd, laugh or cry, be busy from morning until night, be loved and respected and esteemed as a friend, as a public official, as a king, as a pallbearer. Above all be an earnest person by having forgotten the one and only earnestness, to relate yourself to God, to become nothing. Works of Love

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. David Copperfield

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. The Children of Hurin

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. Man's Search For Meaning