“The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.” WantHardDesireJesusEasyHurtPerfectKnowingAspectDisappointmentRuinsMiserableHard TimesLacking Author:Kay Arthur
“I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.” KnowsWritingBelieveHeartCharacterPastReadingCausesBornHurtEducationOughtDiseaseBiggerCancerMiserableKillersIlliteracyHeart DiseaseMiserable LifeLeading Causes Book:Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper Source: Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper
“Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life.” WorldTryingRealityUnderstandingHurtAbilityPerceptionForgivingMiserableSelfishnessBitternessResentmentAccurateAccommodateNot ForgivingUnderstanding The WorldPerception Reality Author:Richard Walters