You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.
You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in us. Everything that has been, if we saw it when it was, was taken from us when it went away.
I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but...
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.
If the Love of Christ in us and through us does not affect others as it has us, then it is not authentic". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.
We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.
The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
The three of us made love like one of us was a voyeur. I was the only one using binoculars as a sex toy.
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.
