We can discover this meaning in life

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

Victor Frankl.

We are healed of suffering

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

--Marcel Proust.

Whenever evil befalls us

© Hector Lee, 2010

© Hector Lee, 2010

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

--Leigh Hunt

I have learned two lessons in my life

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

--Elie Wiesel

You know quite well

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse.

Today, our school officially found out that Sylvia, our principal, will not be returning to Flynn. Our district told our parents and families before the staff. They have yet no principal to replace her. The district, at least, recognizes that we need an experienced principal. Flynn will be getting a Turnaround Principal. There is hope for Flynn, but will I be part of it?