I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.
single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.
Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds.
These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories
In how many minds should I go crazy? Whom should I ask?
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.
Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
