We Must Buy Jewelry; It Identifies Us

I Don't Know What To Do. I Only Know That It's Taken Me Years To Understand That Life Was Pushing Me In A Direction I Didn't Want To Go In.

Only Children Believe They're Capable Of Everything. They're Trusting And Fearless; They Believe In Their Own Power And Get Exactly What They Want. When Children Grow Up, They Start To Realize That They're Not As Powerful As They Thought And That They Need Other People In Order Survive. Then The Child Begins To Love And To Hope His Love Will Be Requited; And As Life Goes On, He Develops An Ever-greater Need To Be Loved In Return, Even If That Means Having To Give Up His Power. We All End Up Where We Are Now: Grown-ups Doing Everything We Can To Be Accepted And Loved.

They Went To University Because Someone, At A Time When Universities Seemed Important, Said That In Order To Rise In The World, You Had To Have A Degree. And Thus The World Was Deprived Of Some Excellent Gardeners, Bakers, Antique Dealers, Sculptors, And Writers.

We Tend To Seek Captivity Because We Are Used To Seeing Freedom As Something That Has Neither Frontiers Nor Responsibilities.

O God, When I Listen To The Voices Of Animals, The Sounds Of Trees, The Murmurings Of Water, The Singing Of Birds, The Whistling Of The Wind, Or The Boom Of Thunder, I See In Them Evidence Of Your Unity; I Feel That You Are Supreme Power, Omniscience, Supreme Knowledge, And Supreme Justice. I Recognize You, O God, In The Trials I Am Going Through. May Your Pleasure Be My Pleasure, Too. May I Be Your Joy, The Joy That A Father Feels For A Son. And May I Think Of You Calmly And With Determination, Even When I Find It Hard To Say I Love You.