The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.
Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.
Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.
So now books were her only friends. She'd read so often she could recite whole scenes by memory. It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.
Who judges the judge who judges wrong? The sentence too weak, The sentence too strong. The penance too quick, The penance too long. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?
We live through the belief of children...Regicide is , citizens. Inscribe in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.
No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.
The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.
I will find her." "And when you do?" Roger asked. "I will make her mine," the warrior answered in a hard, determined voice. "She will be mine." The vow was made.
He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.
We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.
What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive yourself and move one.
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.
Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of
When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.
