What Took You So Long?

• Often things ARE as bad as they seem.
• Even so, some of the time it's possible to enjoy life as it is.
• But the better anyting gets, the more you will miss it when it's gone.
• Why grieve when nothing helps? We cry because nothing helps.
• If you stubbornly refuse to mourn your losses, you get depressed.
• Revenge is a form of nostalgia.
• Suicide can be a case of mistaken identity.
• What's a person to do about feeling helpless? For a while there's just no way to see what's funny about being stuck.
• At last, a cry out in anguish: "Why me?" God answers "Why not?"
• You CAN so stand it!
• After all, it's only pain.
• What makes it seem unbearable is your mistaken belief that it can be cured.
• Everything is difficult at first.
• I have never begun any important venture for which I felt adequately prepared.
• Not everything worth doing is worth doing right.
• Without knowing for sure what is right or wrong, take your best shot.
• There's just NO way to get it all straight. Mistakes are inevitable.
• Control is an illusion.
• You wait for everything to be all right, knowing all the while that the next problem is already in the mail.
• Life just keeps coming at you.
• Complaining can become a way of of boasting about how much suffering you can endure.
• If we allow pain more of our attention than it requires, we lose some opportunities for joy.
• Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.
• It's all right to pretend sometimes. The only danger lies in pretending that you are not pretending.