Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain…. [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields…. – Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Stumbling is not falling. – Proverb

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. – The Houghton Line, November 1965