“disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness”
“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.”
“Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.”
“We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.”
“Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.”
“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.”