For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.
It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!), "I trust you; do what you must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us.
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
We are the wire, God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
Here am I; send me.
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.
I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I've left the Past in God's keeping, the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God, and manly reliance on self.
Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.
Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.