Prayer Is Vastly Superior To Worry. With

Girls Have Long Been Evaluated On The Basis Of Appearance And Caught In Myriad Double Binds: Achieve, But Not Too Much, Be Polite,but Be Yourself, Be Feminine And Adult; Be Aware Of Our Cultural Heritage, But Don't Comment On The Sexism. . . . Girls Are Trained To Be Less Than Who They Really Are. They Are Trained To Be What The Culture Wants Of Its Young Women, Not What They Themselves Want To Become.

One Important Reason To Stay Calm Is That Calm Parents Hear More. Low-key, Accepting Parents Are The Ones Whose Children Keep Talking.

Coming Out Of The Trance Of Denial Is Painful. But Crises Offer Us Opportunities To Rethink Our Lives. The Best Thing About Despair Is That It Wakes Us Up. We Can See The World More Clearly And Open To New Possibilities...and We Can Find New Joy In The Ordinary.

Prayer Is Vastly Superior To Worry. With Worry, We Are Helpless; With Prayer, We Are Interceding. When I Hear Sad News, I Try To Say A Prayer For The Victims. When I Am Troubled, I Will Say A Prayer That Asks For Relief For Myself And For All Those Who Suffer As I Do. When I Am Concerned About My Relatives Or Friends I Say A Short Prayer To Myself - "may They Be Happy And Free Of Suffering."

When One Of Us Tells The Truth, He Makes It Easier For All Of Us To Open Our Hearts To Our Pain And That Of Others.