To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative in negativ...
The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.
In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.
The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.
