Sing

To sing a song is to possess one's soul.

Fulton Sheen

Problems

The greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally unsolvable. They can never be solved, they are only outgrown.

Carl Jung

Mercy

First, there is the fall, and then we recover from the fall. Both are the mercy of God 

Julian of Norwich

Truth

"What is truth?"
The truth is a transcendent virtue which enters into all well-ordered human affairs and, according to the diversity of these, assumes different names. In the schools it s called science, in speech veracity, in conduct frankness, in conversation sincerity, in actions righteousness, in business dealings honesty, in giving advice freedom from prejudice, in the keeping of promises loyalty, and in the courts of law it has the noble title of justice.

From the English translation of Blessed Pope John XXIII's "The journal of a soul", quoting the text of Fr. Segneri

Pain

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Trust God

Hold out to God everything that is calculating and impure! Trust that in you, too, lives pure love, that you really do want to love other people just as they are, that in you there is a deep longing to love God with all your heart. Even if you do not often feel love for God, even if pure love seems a very distant reality, there is within you at least an intuitive grasp of, and a genuine longing for, this love - a love which makes your life truly worth living. Trust your longing! Trust your love!

Anselm Grun, "Taste the Joy of Easter"

Mission

God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission - I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.

Blessed John Henry Newman