Michael Sliney

“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.” – Man’s Search for meaning by Viktor Frankl

“In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.” St. John of the Cross

“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.” – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”

-Jim Butcher

“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory.” —Mark Twain