REINHOLD NIEBUHR

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.”

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

“Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.”

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”