" When the great troubles descend and life seems black with woes, do not mutter mournfully 'this is the end' but rather say hopefully 'this is the beginning!' The occasion can be seized as the opportunity to start a new life, to show forth the positive, courageous and constructive qualities that lie latent within you. It could be an opportunity to reconstruct your existence on a finer basis, a proper basis, on those qualities that ought to endure. Conquer your difficulties in the mind first, and then they too, will gradually reshape themselves in external circumstances anew. Let each sorrow, when it comes, be the starting point for a diviner kind of life. You are made in God's image - oh yes, deep inside you really are- then live up to it. When you refuse to recognize the evil in another person or in a set of circumstances, you diminish its power to affect you. Make of your trouble a means of looking at life from a fresh angle and think about it in a stronger way, a positive way. Be without bitterness concerning that which might have been; rebellion cannot help you; wise resignation may. Begin afresh, by becoming a fresh personality. Try, thus, to disarm destiny. Make a list of the things that you still posses, both material and spiritual, and you will see that you are not really lost. At the very worst you will be lost only when you lose all hope, all courage and all trust in the divine healing powers that rule us. The agony of letting go of things is great, yes, but the agony of letting go of hope is greater. Do not submit to that, it is uncalled for. God still exists, he/she/it still loves you. I assure you that I have earned the right to write that last sentence, for I have earned it in anguish as keen as your own."
I could not have said it better myself. P.B. was both an inspiration and a humble man. These words I have studied since first stumbling upon them. So much depth and wisdom here.