When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line. (Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York)

It feels like I’m trapped in quicksand. The more I struggle, the more I sink. So I stop struggling. I stop trying to free myself; because the more I struggle the scarier it becomes. Then—and only then did panic yield long enough for a numbness to spread and stick to me like a second skin

His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life