<GOD>
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
<FAMILY>
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
<LOVE>
To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
<SELF>
We must recognize ourselves in others before we can acknowledge otherness in ourselves.
<FRIENDS>
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to l