It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the mode...
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best not to have this so over-simplified as the illusioned superstitionists have it; an infinite being's tests may not always be so flowery, and the thing...
The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.
I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
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.
