The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.
My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image
I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed.
Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.