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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me , but I think she enjoyed it”
― Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain

“Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I cannot shun the past because it contains information that is useful to script future goals. Looking back into the opaque window of reductive retrospect, what essential opportunities exist today that beckon one to seek with unrestrained enthusiasm? What iridescent signals flare from our conceptual self that if we heedlessly ignore their luminous summons, such deliberate acts of omission will suture the apex of our souls, relegating us to the dreaded curse of mucking along in an ordinary life stalled out by our overweening fear of estrangement?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.”
― Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us through the Events in Our Lives