Unsolicited Advice

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum

If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa


If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark


Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha


We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West


If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit


The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.  ~Robert Brault




The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale


God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey

And finally...


Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~William Shakespeare