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 A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.  When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing. People who never get carried away should be. Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting. God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us. Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you. One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. Summertime, oh, summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade-proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design, their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky, the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play, escaping the city heat. 0 God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me. He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. - Goethe If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew. The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon. To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both. People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now. He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later. 
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