“KATRIN. Mama... have you had a very hard life? MAMA. Hard? No. No life is easy all the time. It is not meant to be. KATRIN. But... rich people... aren't their lives easy? MAMA. I don't know, Katrin. I have never known any rich people. But I see them sometimes in stores and in the streets, and they do not look as if they were easy. KATRIN. Wouldn't you like to be rich? MAMA. I would like to be rich the way I would like to be ten feet high. Would be good for some things — bad for others.”

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

“Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.”

“Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.”