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 I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.  My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer. To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully. Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing. Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. No one is happy all his life long. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too. The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God. Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not. There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength. 
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