I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?
The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a God as a person and a shape and endowed with a will.' That was stated by a famous Protestant. The anarch does not want to h...
Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you co...
Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped by the very language i...
Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness ha...
Forse – considerò – non esistono nemmeno amici buoni o cattivi, forse ci sono solo amici, persone che prendono le tue parti quando stai male e che ti aiutano a non sentirti solo. Forse per un amico vale sempre la pena avere paura e sperare e viv...
The problem when you are a strong, capable, self-confident person, is that more often than not, people think that you don't really need things like comfort, reassurance, loyalty and guidance. People are more likely to look at you and say, "She doesn'...
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about.
A person is unlucky who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
Respect flies away for the one who pursues it and hunts the person who is fleeing from it.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs
A pig that is used to wallowing in the mud looks for a clean person to rub against.
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good.
No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downw...
Pretty average headlines for a worldwide catastrophe," Jane remarked as she read from Hollywood's Highest. "Some man in Africa claimed to have found the cure for AIDS, yet another politician said something about the president and now formally regrets...
In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 80 percent of the participants identify one or more an...
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will re...