I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesnt promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. – Patricia Heaton
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau